Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics - Hardcover

Segre, Gino

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067003858X ISBN 13: 9780670038589

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2007

Synopsis

Documents the 1932 gathering of some forty of the world's top names in physics, placing the meeting against a backdrop of key scientific developments while citing the contributions of specific figures and offering insight into how their unsuspecting collaborations gave way to subsequent historical events.

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Review:

a [A] fascinating story, insightfully told and consistently engaging . . . SegrA] speaks to the reader with enthusiasm, at times unable to conceal his excitement about the fascinating story heas sharing, yet his telling is deftly and dramatically structured, providing necessary historical and scientific context, clearly and concisely.a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"
a Cracking good narrative history.a
a"Time"

[A] fascinating story, insightfully told and consistently engaging . . . Segr speaks to the reader with enthusiasm, at times unable to conceal his excitement about the fascinating story he s sharing, yet his telling is deftly and dramatically structured, providing necessary historical and scientific context, clearly and concisely.
"San Francisco Chronicle"
Cracking good narrative history.
"Time"

? [A] fascinating story, insightfully told and consistently engaging . . . Segr? speaks to the reader with enthusiasm, at times unable to conceal his excitement about the fascinating story he's sharing, yet his telling is deftly and dramatically structured, providing necessary historical and scientific context, clearly and concisely.?
?"San Francisco Chronicle"

? Cracking good narrative history.?
?"Time"

About the Author:

Gino Segrè is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally renowned expert on high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, he is the author of A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 067003858X
• ISBN 13: 9780670038589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310