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The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein and it is based on"This book is Gamow at his best, which means the very best in science for the layman." Library Journal Widely recognized as one of the 20th century's foremost physicists, George Gamow was also an unusually capable popularizer of science. His talents are vividly revealed in this exciting and penetrating explanation of how the central laws of physical science evolved from Pythagoras' discovery of frequency ratios in the 6th century B. C. to today's