Properties of Light: a Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics - Hardcover

Goldstein, Rebecca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395986591 ISBN 13: 9780395986592

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2000

Synopsis

The obsessions, betrayals, and passions of three physicists--a brilliant theorist tormented by his lack of professional acclaim; his brilliant daughter, whose devotion to him causes tragedy for her lover; and her lover, her father's protTgT--threaten their work to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of quantum mechanics, including the very nature of light itself.

About this title

About the Author:

Rebecca Goldstein is the author of four novels, including THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM, and a collection of short stories, STRANGE ATTRACTORS. Her work has won numerous prizes, including two Whiting Awards. In 1996, she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University, where her work was concentrated in the philosophy of science and was supported by a National Science Foundation fellowship. She resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Synopsis:

The obsessions, betrayals, and passions of three physicists threaten their work to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of quantum mechanices, including the nature of light itself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0395986591
• ISBN 13: 9780395986592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224