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Faust In Copenhagen Gino Segre

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Zusammenfassung

In 1932, the so-called annus mirabilis of modern physics, a group of scientists gathered in Copenhagen for a week-long conference on the extraordinary new work that was taking place in laboratories across the world;

Faust In Copenhagen Zusammenfassung

Faust In Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age Gino Segre

In 1932, the so-called annus mirabilis of modern physics, a group of scientists gathered in Copenhagen for a week-long conference on the extraordinary new work that was taking place in laboratories across the world; work that would ultimately lead to the development of nuclear weapons and the ensuing international power struggles.

Segre's erudite and impressive account explores this crucial moment in history through the lives and careers of seven physicists sitting in the front row of the Copenhagen meeting. Six of them were already in the pantheon of genius while the seventh - Max Delbruck - was the author of a skit performed at the conference that lightly parodied the struggle between the old and new theories of physics and eerily foreshadowed the events that were to unfold in the struggle between peaceful uses of scientific discovery and destructive ones.

Faust In Copenhagen Bewertungen

Gripping and absorbing... Faust in Copenhagen is written with a style and skill that makes it an early contender for Science book of the year...one of the best I have read in a long time, and which can be whole heartedly recommended * Literary Review *
Lively and accessible * New Humanist *
[Segre] demonstrates a knack for explaining weird conundrums and a humane sympathy for the wrong turnings and moral difficulties of his heroes -- Steven Poole * Guardian *
Segre unravels the tensions and conflicts within the group, both personal and scientific, and of the different approaches to the task of making mathematical sense of the weirdness of the subatomic world -- Kenan Malik * Daily Telegraph *
Faust in Copenhagen provides an engaging glimpse of the process of scientific discovery * Sunday Telegraph *

Über Gino Segre

Gino Segre is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally renowned expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics and in astrophysics, Segre has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John S. Guggenhein Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. He is the author of over 100 papers in his field as well as a popular book published in 2003, Einstein's Refrigerator - Tales of the Hot and Cold. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Bettina Hoerlin and their dog Kaya.

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GOR004826223
9781845951313
184595131X
Faust In Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age Gino Segre
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Broschiert
Vintage Publishing
20080703
320
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