The Adventures Of Mr Tompkins And Einstein

Mr. Tompkins, the inquisitive bank clerk created in 1937 by esteemed physicist George Gamow--developer of the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe--returns in a new series of "graphic textbooks"! Previously available only as part of The Adventures of Mr. Tompkins Volume One, this Tompkins adventure finds him traveling through time and space with Albert Einstein, who teaches him about the "New Gravity"--the theory of General Relativity!Whether you are a budding beginner or seasoned scientist, The Adventures of Mr. Tompkins and Einstein provides a feast of fantastic imagery and mind-expanding information!Igor Gamow, son of George Gamow, proudly brings his father's literary hero to the 21st century for a new audience. For thirty-seven years he was a professor of engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He holds numerous patents in the field of bioengineering, including the Gamow Bag, a device that treats high altitude mountain sickness.Scorpio Steele, in addition to illustrating Mr. Tompkins? new adventures, has worked on Spider-Man and Iron Man projects for Marvel Comics, as well as art for the glam-rock band The New York Dolls.

Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams lead him into a world inside the atom. This classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in physics, from atomic structure to relativity.

Mr. Tompkins, the inquisitive bank clerk created by esteemed physicist George Gamow in 1937, returns in a new "graphic textbook" companion to the popular new video series! Join Tompkins as he learns about gravity from Albert Einstein, explores the atom with Ernest Rutherford and gets a radioactive guided tour by Marie Curie!

"Being the second in a series of graphic science text-books of the most peculiar dimensions and amazing contents."

This book is a supplement to the educational science graphic novel THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS, and contains a glossary, index, and teacher's guides for the first three stories within that book. These three stories feature Albert Einstein explaining gravity, Ernest Rutherford teaching the history of the study of the atom, and Marie Curie discussing her life history and work with radioactivity. These stories were originally created as a series of videos; the first half of the video would be a lecture by me, assuming the role of the bearded Professor from the Mr. Tompkins books written by my father, George Gamow. In those books, Mr. Tompkins would first attend a lecture by the Professor, then fall asleep to learn various scientific concepts. The second half of the video would be an illustrated Mr. Tompkins adventure, and recount the events of Mr. Tompkins' dream and the famous scientist he meets within it. Eventually it was decided to continue THE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS as a line of "graphic textbooks" instead of videos, so only the first three stories within THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS have supplemental teacher's guides. These guides include links to the video versions of the Einstein, Rutherford, and Curie episodes. These guides are a terrific, novel way to incorporate the ideas discussed in THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS into the classroom, and I hope you enjoy them. Professor Igor Gamow

An inspirational introduction to the physics of the twenty-first century.

From author Igor Gamow: Mr. Tompkins, the inquisitive bank clerk created by my father, physicist George Gamow, leaps into the 21st century in a new "graphic textbook"! In this mammoth tome, Tompkins meets over ten famous scientists and learns their histories and key concepts! Albert Einstein: gravity Sir Ernest Rutherford: the history of early atomic physics Marie Curie: radioactivity Charles Darwin: evolution through natural selection Gregor Mendel: hereditary traits James Watson, Alfred Hershey, & Martha Chase: DNA Aristotle: the origins of biology Leonardo da Vinci & the Wright Brothers: the origins of flight Rachel Carson: the environmental impact of systemic pesticides Karl von Frisch: the life of bees George Gamow: the Big Bang theory Father created Tompkins in 1937, and since I was born in ''35 I''m in a sense Mr. Tompkins'' older brother. Father thought the audience for his three Tompkins books, Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland (1940), Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom (1944), and Mr. Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life (1953) . would be the lay public who might glean a little understanding of contemporary science if he explained it in simple, everyday language, clever analogies, and no mathematics. To his astonishment his largest audience was comprised of scientists who actually performed the scientific research he wrote about. His publishing fame grew exponentially, not only among scientists but among young students who were inspired to go into science because of his popular books. Three such students who were inspired and became noted scientists are Sir Roger Penrose, Professor Kip Thorne and Professor Paul D. Beale, (who has written the foreword for this book). To learn that so many scientists were inspired by my father''s work was common during my tenure as a professor. Literally dozens of professional scientists, having seen the Gamow surname on my office door, would visit and tell me "I went into science because of the books of George Gamow." My goal is that THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS will continue to recruit the young students who might become tomorrow''s scientists, and teach them that even the most famous scientist, such as Einstein, Curie, or even Father, comes from humble origins and may one day turn the scientific world on its head with diligent study and determination. As a child in Odessa, Ukraine, he had a passion for literature and science, and by age 24 he wrote what was essentially the first book ever published on quantum mechanics. In 1933 he and my mother escaped the Soviet Union with financial help from Niels Bohr and Marie Curie, and sailed to America, where he became a professor at George Washington University. In 1946, at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins Laboratory, my father, graduate student Ralph Alpher, and lab employee Robert Herman, used the earliest computers to calculate the origin of the chemical elements. In 1948 Father and Alpher published these findings in a now-famous paper, and were credited with the first experimental evidence for what became known as the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe. (Father hated the name "Big Bang" because it was neither Big and did not go Bang!) But for all his work on the Big Bang, it''s likely Mr. Tompkins that is Father''s greatest legacy. As I visited with dozens of educators on how I could modernize my father''s character and bring him to a new audience, nothing seemed quite right until a colleague introduced me to talented comic book artist/graphic designer Scorpio Steele. Scorpio and I have now worked on THE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS for many years, and the entire fruits of our collective labor are contained in this book. Educational graphic novels may possibly be the future of progressive science text books worldwide, and I am delighted that in this class of books I can include THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF MR. TOMPKINS.

Lucid, accessible introduction to the influential theory of energy and matter features careful explanations of Dirac's anti-particles, Bohr's model of the atom, and much more. Numerous drawings. 1966 edition.

Mr. Tompkins is back! The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed, and informed young and old alike since the publication of the hugely successful Mr Tompkins in Paperback (by George Gamow) in 1965. Now, this highly affable character returns to embark on a set of adventures that explore the extreme edges of the universe--the smallest, the largest, the fastest, and the farthest. Just by following the experiences and dreams of Mr. Tompkins, readers discover and come to know the merry dance of cosmic mysteries, including: Einstein's theory of relativity, bizarre effects near light-speed, the birth and death of the universe, black holes, quarks, space warps and antimatter, the fuzzy world of the quantum, and that ultimate cosmic mystery--love. The story of Mr. Tompkins' journey to the frontiers of modern physics will delight and inform all readers. Russell Stannard is a best-selling popular science writer and the author of the critically acclaimed Uncle Albert series of science books for children.