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Now in paperback: Heisenberg's life reconsidered for the twenty-first century by the world's leading English-language authority.
Drawing on captured Nazi documents found in Soviet archives and other recently released materials, Cassidy (J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century) offers a new view of the German wunderkind Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in physics for revolutionizing the nascent field of quantum physics, first with his matrix interpretation of quantum mechanics, then with his famous uncertainty principle. What Cassidy seeks to understand is why Heisenberg chose-indeed fought-to remain in Germany under the Nazi regime and then took a leadership role in its efforts to split the atom. Heisenberg later rationalized these activities, but Cassidy shows that the account in the scientist's memoirs doesn't always agree with evidence in the recovered documents. Heisenberg's famous wartime meeting with his one-time mentor Niels Bohr in Copenhagen is parsed in detail as Cassidy considers their conflicting accounts. Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book, though it moves too quickly through Heisenberg's 30 postwar years. Photos. (Feb.)
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Add Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb, Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book.Publishers Weekly, starred review Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read.Los A, Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb, Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book.Publishers Weekly, starred review Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read.Los A, Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb to your collection on WonderClub |