Wonderfully vivid and accessible, this is an account of that moment when the world's greatest physicists came out of the laboratory and onto the international stage - the birth of 'big science' and the nuclear age
Gino Segr 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, Segr 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.
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*
[Segrè] demonstrates a knack for explaining weird conundrums and a
humane sympathy for the wrong turnings and moral difficulties of
his heroes
*Guardian*
Segrè 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
*Daily Telegraph*
Faust in Copenhagen provides an engaging glimpse of the process of
scientific discovery
*Sunday Telegraph*
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