The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics - Softcover

Crease, Robert P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813521777 ISBN 13: 9780813521770

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 1996

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The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" (a description of how matter behaves that can apply equally to everything) with brilliant scientists such as Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and many others. They provide the definitive and highly entertaining story of the development of modern physics, and the human story of the physicists who set out to find the "theory of everything."

The Second Creation tells the story of some of the most talented and idiosyncratic people in the world--many times in their own words. Crease and Mann conducted hundreds of interviews to capture the thinking and the personalities as well as the science. The authors make this complex subject matter clear and absorbing.

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ROBERT P. CREASE is an associate professor of philosophy at SUNY--Stony Brook. He is writing a history of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

CHARLES C. MANN is an Award-winning science writer and contributing editor of Atlantic Monthly and Science magazine. His most recent book is Noah's Choice.

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Now back in print, The Second Creation is the intimate story of the decades-long scientific quest for "unification", a theory that draws together all matter and energy, from the hottest supernovas to the whirring fragments of the atom. Based on scores of in-depth interviews with such brilliant scientists as Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg, Robert Crease and Charles Mann vividly portray the tense, exciting world of investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. In telling the richly human story of the two generations of scientists who set out to find the "theory of everything", the authors recount a sweeping saga that moves from the early days of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr arguing in a Copenhagen park to the vast, mile-long atom smashers of today. The Second Creation is a definitive group portrait of twentieth-century physics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813521777
• ISBN 13: 9780813521770
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 500
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