Statistical Physics and the Atomic Theory of Matter from Boyle and Newton to Landau and Onsager

by Stephen G. Brush

The description for this book, Statistical Physics and the Atomic Theory of Matter from Boyle and Newton to Landau and Onsager, will be forthcoming.

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

A scholar in the history of science, Stephen George Brush earned his BS in physics at Harvard University and his D.Phil. at Oxford University. After a year as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Imperial College London, Brush worked as a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California in the area of statistical mechanics from 1959 until 1965. He was a lecturer in Physics at Harvard University from 1965 until 1968, and a historian of science at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1968 until his retirement as Distinguished Professor of the History of Science in 2007.