David D. Nolte, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dept of Physics, Purdue University, USA

David D. Nolte is the Edward M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. His research areas have included experimental high-energy physics, cosmology, semiconductor physics, laser physics and biophysics. He received his BA from Cornell University in 1981, his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, and a post-doctoral appointment at AT&T Bell Labs before joining the faculty at Purdue. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the AAAS. In 2005, he received the Herbert Newby McCoy Award of Purdue University. He is the inventor of the BioCD and Biodynamic Imaging and is the technical founder of two biotech companies using interferometry and holography for diagnostic screening.

"the richness of the story-telling of the present book, which is able to let even the non-erudite reader to appreciate what the erudite scholar (probably) takes for granted" -- Salvatore Esposito, Contemporary Physics Journal

"Highly Recommended." -- CHOICE

"Using very few equations, Nolte looks at nearly every area of physics and even includes chapters on chaos and Darwinian evolution. Some of the phase space illustrations are complicated, but Nolte does an excellent job of developing these from the basic ideas of a trajectory through physical space. There is an unexpressed argument here that it may be better for the uninitiated to learn about the sciences through phase space concepts. By learning about the sciences in this way, one gains an appreciation for the symmetry and beauty of the theories without having to learn the advanced mathematics." -- Professor Eric Kincanon, Gonzaga University

"David Nolte, in Galileo Unbound draws a continuous line starting from Galileo, to Newton, Lagrange and Poincaré, all the way to Darwin and beyond." -- Nature Astronomy