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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781891011177)
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x"A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era."--The Wall Street Journal
There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists--Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and others--came together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so outrageous and contrary to traditional physics that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality.
In page-turning chapters, Tobias H?ter takes us back to this momentous time in science history, when the creation of quantum theory demanded the combined efforts of friends and rivals, lovers and loners, straight-edged intellectuals and freethinking dreamers--and when, with the Nazis in pursuit of an atomic bomb, the stakes couldn't be higher. In this stirring, grand narrative, brought to life by letters, notes, research papers, diaries, and memoirs, we witness the birth of an idea that revolutionized both physics and our world at large and unleashed the profound and terrifying power of the atom--and that ultimately stands as a testament to the boundless potential of genius in collaboration.
Author: Tobias H?ter
ISBN-10: 1891011170
ISBN-13: 9781891011177
Publisher: Experiment
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d
Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Gold Medal Winner
There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists--Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and others--came together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so outrageous and contrary to traditional physics that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality.
In page-turning chapters, Tobias H?ter takes us back to this momentous time in science history, when the creation of quantum theory demanded the combined efforts of friends and rivals, lovers and loners, straight-edged intellectuals and freethinking dreamers--and when, with the Nazis in pursuit of an atomic bomb, the stakes couldn't be higher. In this stirring, grand narrative, brought to life by letters, notes, research papers, diaries, and memoirs, we witness the birth of an idea that revolutionized both physics and our world at large and unleashed the profound and terrifying power of the atom--and that ultimately stands as a testament to the boundless potential of genius in collaboration.
Author: Tobias H?ter
ISBN-10: 1891011170
ISBN-13: 9781891011177
Publisher: Experiment
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d
Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Gold Medal Winner
By Tobias H?ter
xTobias H?ter studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and Berkeley. He has written about science and philosophy for magazines and newspapers since 2000, including as an editor at MIT Technology Review and as cofounder of the philosophy magazine Hohe Luft. Now a permanent freelance editor at Die Zeit Magazin Wissen, he lives in Munich.
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