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Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gino SegreAudience:Young AdultPublish date:06/01/08Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143113737ISBN-10:143113739UPC:9780143113737Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Physics, ModernBook Topic:Quantum Theory, 20th CenturySize:8.38 x 5.47 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SC680WBVF8
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143113737ISBN-10:143113739UPC:9780143113737Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Physics, ModernBook Topic:Quantum Theory, 20th CenturySize:8.38 x 5.47 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SC680WBVF8
Gino Segr? is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally renowned expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, Segr? has served as director of Theoretical Physics at the National Science Foundation and received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. This is his first book.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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