Publication date UK format 4/10/22 book 368 pages
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Synopsis
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and more—toppled the Newtonian universe amid the turmoil of two World Wars. There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when many of the most important physicists ever to live—Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world: a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality. In cinematic, page-turning chapters, Tobias Hürter takes us back to this uniquely momentous and harrowing time, when war and revolution upended the lives of his renegade scientists. As they crisscross Europe, Hürter reveals these brilliant thinkers anew, as friends and enemies, lovers and loners, and indeed, men and women just like us. Hürter compellingly casts quantum mechanics as a concept Too Big for a Single Mind—and its birth as a testament to the boundless potential of genius in collaboration
My Review
This was a very interesting read. It took me a full day to read including staying up past midnight but it was worth it. I have read a few books about some of these physicists and it was great to read a book that connects them all so well. It was great to read how they worked to progress mechanical physics slowly towards the splitting of the atom then the creation of thr atom bomb. I really liked how the author explained all the connections and the feelings they had for each other. Then the Germans interesting in acquiring them. This book taught me links I didn't even know about. So I learnt quite a bit from reading it. This book is quite long but well worth reading as it is so well wrote. It really made me think and engage in the theories. I now certainly look at some of the scientists in a new light. It was obvious that this book was both well researched and write by an author who has extensive knowledge. This book isn't very scientific so anyone with and interest can easy read and understand it. I definitely recommend reading this book especially if your a history reader or a science lover. The book has a handful of great pictures. I actually wish there was more. The pictures really helped break up the text and give the book that extra dimension.
So much praise goes out to the author and publishers for bringing us this very interesting book that I struggled to put down.
Where you can buy this book
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