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Faust In Copenhagen: Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age

Faust In Copenhagen: Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age

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Faust In Copenhagen: Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age

by Segre, Gino

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A physicist himself, Gino Segrè writes about what scientists do?and why they do it?with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In Faust in Copenhagen , he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics?and the world?was about to lose its innocence forever. Known by physicists as the miracle year, 1932 saw the discovery of the neutron and antimatter, as well as the first artificially induced nuclear transmutations. However, while scientists celebrated these momentous discoveries?which presaged the nuclear era and the emergence of big science?during a meeting at Niels Bohr?s Copenhagen Institute, Europe was moving inexorably toward totalitarianism and war.

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Title
Faust In Copenhagen: Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age
Author
Segre, Gino
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Hardback
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Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0224072560
ISBN 13
9780224072564
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
This edition first published
2007-07

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