Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

Segre, Gino

ISBN 10: 0143113739 / ISBN 13: 9780143113737

Edité par Penguin Publishing Group, 2008

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Synopsis :

A physicist himself, Gino Segrè 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.

À propos de l'auteur: Gino Segrè is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally renowned expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, Segrè 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.

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Titre : Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul...
Éditeur : Penguin Publishing Group
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good