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Bruce D. Popp is an ATA-certified translator for French into English with a BA in physics from Cornell University and a PhD in astrophysics from Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 2017 S. Edmund Berger Prize for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Translation; he was awarded the prize for his first book, a translation from French into English of <i>The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics</i>&nbsp;by Henri Poincaré (Springer 2017).

<div><div><div><div><div><div>Produced by an award-winning translator of Henri Poincaré, this book contains translations&nbsp;of several seminal articles by Poincaré and discusses the experimental and theoretical investigations of electrons that form their context.&nbsp;</div><div>In the 1950s, a dispute ignited about the origin of the theory of special relativity and thrust considerable notoriety on a paper written by Henri Poincaré in 1905. Accordingly, Part I presents&nbsp;the relevant translations of Poincaré’s work showing that radiation carries momentum&nbsp;and the covariance of the equations of electrodynamics, the continuity equation for charge,&nbsp;and the spacetime interval. Part II then discusses investigations by Thomson,&nbsp;Becquerel, and Kaufmann of electrons in diverse contexts; contributions of Abraham,&nbsp;Lorentz and Poincaré to a theory of electrons that includes Lorentz transformations and&nbsp;explains the dependence of mass on velocity; and finally, Poincaré’s exploration of the relativity&nbsp;principle, electron stability, and gravitation while rejecting absolute motion (ether) and&nbsp;an electromagnetic origin of mass. Part III contains the 1904 article by H. A. Lorentz&nbsp;presenting his transformations.</div><div>This book will be a fascinating read to graduate-level students, physicists, and science&nbsp;historians who are interested in the development of electrodynamics and the classical,&nbsp;relativistic theory of electrons at the beginning of the 20th century.</div></div></div></div></div></div>

Features translations by an award-winning translator of Henri Poincaré Recounts the discovery of radioactivity and the characterization of its components An insightful reanalysis of data from 1902 concerning high-speed electrons Offers a clear comparison of contributions by M. Abraham, H. A. Lorentz and H. Poincaré to a theory of electrons