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Bantam Press, 2012 8vo (23 cm), XII, 324 pp. Laminated wrappers (paper slightly toned). "Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger was working at one of the most fertile and creative moments in the whole history of science. By the time he started university in 1906, Einstein had already published his revolutionary papers on relativity. Now the baton of scientific progress was being passed to a new generation: Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Niels Bohr, and of course, Schrödinger himself. In this riveting biography John Gribbin takes us into the heart of the quantum revolution. He tells the story of Schrödinger's surprisingly colourful life (he arrived for a position at Oxford University with both his wife and…
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- Title In Search of Schrodinger
- Author John Gribbin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First PB Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Export
- Date 2012
- ISBN 9780593068656 / 0593068653
- Dewey Decimal Code 530.12
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