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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

Contributor(s): Hürter, Tobias (Author), Shaw, David (Author)

ISBN: 9781615199204

Publisher: Experiment

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Pub Date: October 4, 2022

Dewey: 530.09

LCCN: 2022023803

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.40" H x 9.10" L x 6.30" W ( 1.37 lbs) 368 pages

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Description: "Intriguing and well-written."--The Wall Street Journal

The epic story of how, amid two world wars, history's greatest physicists redefined the universe and the reality we live in

Brief description: Tobias Hürter studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and Berkeley. He has written about science and philosophy for magazines and newspapers since 2000, including as an editor at MIT Technology Review and as cofounder of the philosophy magazine Hohe Luft. Now a permanent freelance editor at Die Zeit Magazin Wissen, he lives in Munich.

Review Quotes: 2022 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner

"Intriguing and well-written. . . . Too Big for a Single Mind cleverly interweaves the stories of the leading early 20th-century physicists with the political and personal events that shaped their lives. . . . Hürter's formidable grasp of the great period of quantum discovery represents a new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era.-- "The Wall Street Journal"

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