Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Segre, Gino

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143113737)

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Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Segre, Gino

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

$24.00
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Segre, Gino

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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A physicist himself, Gino Segr writes about what scientists do and why they do it with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In Faust in Copenhagen, he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics' and the world was about to lose its innocence forever. Known by physicists as the miracle year, 1932 saw the discovery of the neutron and antimatter, as well as the first artificially induced nuclear transmutations. However, while scientists celebrated these momentous discoveries, which presaged the nuclear era and the emergence of big science, during a meeting at Niels Bohr's Copenhagen Institute, Europe was moving inexorably toward totalitarianism and war.

Author: Gino Segre
ISBN-10: 0143113739
ISBN-13: 9780143113737
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.47w x 0.72d
By Gino Segre
By Gino Segre
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Gino Segrè is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally renowned expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, Segrè has served as director of Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation and received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. This is his first book.

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