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Introduction; Part 1 The Big Bang; 1 The Big Bang: the science; 2 The Big Bang: the discovery; Part 2 The Atom; 3 The Atom: the science; 4 The Atom: the discovery; Part 3 Energy and Conservation Laws; 5 The science; 6 Motion prior to Galileo; 7 Galileo and the Law of Fall; 8 Newton and the Laws of Motion; 9 The lever; 10 The rise of 12 mv2; 11 Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz; 12 The conservation of mechanical energy; 13 Heat; 14 Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity; 15 Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry; 16 The rise of the steam engine; 17 Caloric; 18 The ideal gas; 19 The final steps to energy and its conservation; 20 Julius Robert Mayer; 21 James Joule; 22 The 1st Law of Thermodynamics; 23 Epilogue: The mystery of beta decay; Part 4 Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics; 24 The science; 25 The piston; 26 England and the steam engine; 27 The Newcomen engine; 28 James Watt; 29 Trevithick, Woolf and high-pressure steam; 30 Sadi Carnot; 31 Rudolph Clausius; 32 William Thomson; 33 The creation of thermodynamics; 34 Clausius and the road to entropy; 35 J. Willard Gibbs; 36 Gibbs' 3rd paper; 37 Practical applications of Gibbs' theories; 38 Dissemination of Gibbs' work; 39 The 2nd Law, entropy and the chemists; 40 Clausius - the kinetic theory of gases; 41 Maxwell - the rise of statistical mechanics; 42 Boltzmann - the probabilistic interpretation of entropy; 43 Shannon - entropy and information theory; Part 5; Conclusion; Acknowledgements and Bibliography

Dr. Robert T. Hanlon earned his Sc.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently conducted post-doctoral research at Karlsruhe University in Germany. His professional career took him to Mobil Oil Research & Development Corporation, the Rohm and Haas Company, and then back to MIT where he is currently involved with their School of Chemical Engineering Practice.