| Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics Contributor(s): Segre, Gino (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143113739 ISBN-13: 9780143113737 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Science | Physics - Quantum Theory - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 530.092 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.47" W x 8.38" (0.67 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |