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- Condition
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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Experiment LLC, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1615199209
ISBN-13
9781615199204
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27057278672
Product Key Features
Book Title
Too Big for a Single Mind : How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History, Physics / Nuclear, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-023803
Reviews
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 "Hürter guides us through the time when physicists developed their fundamental theories." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " Too Big for a Single Mind by Tobias Hürter highlights the work of Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others did together to shake up physics and introduce quantum mechanics, arguing that the field's discovery was a collaborative effort."-- Publishers Weekly, "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.", "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 "Hürter guides us through the time when physicists developed their fundamental theories." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " Too Big for a Single Mind by Tobias Hürter highlights the work of Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others did together to shake up physics and introduce quantum mechanics, arguing that the field's discovery was a collaborative effort."-- Publishers Weekly, There has never been a more exciting and momentous time in the history of science than the first half of the 20th century. In a few decades, physicists like Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Werner Heisenberg revolutionized our understanding of the nature of reality, and we are still coming to terms with their work to this day. Hürter's impeccably researched and wonderfully crafted retelling of their story brings these characters to life more engagingly than anyone else has done before: an awe-inspiring book about an awe-inspiring golden age of scientific enlightenment., "Hürter guides us through the time when physicists developed their fundamental theories." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World by Tobias Hürter highlights the work of Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others did together to shake up physics and introduce quantum mechanics, arguing that the field's discovery was a collaborative effort."-- Publishers Weekly, "Hürter guides us through the time when physicists developed their fundamental theories." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " Too Big for a Single Mind by Tobias Hürter highlights the work of Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others did together to shake up physics and introduce quantum mechanics, arguing that the field's discovery was a collaborative effort."-- Publishers Weekly, 2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist "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 "Hürter guides us through the time when physicists developed their fundamental theories." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " Too Big for a Single Mind by Tobias Hürter highlights the work of Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others did together to shake up physics and introduce quantum mechanics, arguing that the field's discovery was a collaborative effort."-- Publishers Weekly, "Hürter guides us through the time when physicists developed their fundamental theories." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Too Big for a Single Mind by Tobias Hürter highlights the work of Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others did together to shake up physics and introduce quantum mechanics, arguing that the field's discovery was a collaborative effort.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
530.0904
Table Of Content
Contents: Prologue Paris, 1903: Cracks begin to appear Berlin, 1900: An act of desperation Bern, 1905: The patent serf Paris, 1906: The decline and fall of Pierre Curie Berlin, 1908: The end of the flying cigars Prague, 1911: Einstein says it with flowers Cambridge, 1911: A Dane grows up The North Atlantic, 1912: The sinking of infallibility Munich, 1913: A painter moves to Munich Munich, 1914: On tour with the atom Berlin, 1915: Good at theory, bad at relationships Germany, 1916: War and peace Berlin, 1917: Einstein breaks down Berlin, 1918: Pandemic The Caribbean, 1919: The moon obscures the sun Munich, 1919: A young man reads Plato Berlin, 1920: Great minds meet Göttingen, 1922: A son finds his father Munich, 1923: A high-flier almost crashes Copenhagen, 1923: Bohr and Einstein take the tram Copenhagen, 1924: One last try Paris, 1924: A prince makes atoms sing Heligoland, 1925: The vastness of the sea and the tininess of atoms Cambridge, 1925: The quiet genius Leiden, 1925: The prophet of spin Arosa, 1925: A late erotic outburst Copenhagen, 1926: Waves and particles Berlin, 1926: A visit with the demigods Berlin, 1926: The Plancks throw a party Göttingen, 1926: The abolition of reality Munich, 1926: A turf war Copenhagen, 1926: Exquisitely carved marble statues falling out of the sky Copenhagen, 1926: A game with sharpened knives Copenhagen, 1927: The world goes fuzzy Como, 1927: Dress rehearsal Brussels, 1927: The great debate Berlin, 1930: Germany flourishes, Einstein falls ill Brussels, 1930: K.O. in the second round Zurich, 1931: Pauli's dreams Copenhagen, 1932: Faust in Copenhagen Berlin, 1933: Some flee, some stay Amsterdam, 1933: A sad end Oxford, 1935: The cat that isn't there Princeton, 1935: Einstein puts the world back in focus Garmisch, 1935: Dirty snow Moscow, 1937: On the other side Berlin, 1938: Bursting nuclei The Atlantic, 1939: Terrible news Copenhagen, 1941: Estrangement Berlin, 1942: No bomb for Hitler Stockholm, 1943: Flight Princeton, 1943: Einstein mellows England, 1945: The impact of the explosion Epilogue Index
Synopsis
There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists--Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and others--came together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality. In propulsive, page-turning chapters, Tobias Hürter takes us back to a uniquely harrowing and momentous time, when war and revolution upended the lives of these renegade scientists, who were forced to crisscross Europe as they worked together to topple classical physics. These tumultuous decades would also be the culmination and closing chapter of a more serendipitous--and more human--kind of research. Today, physics has principally become a practical discipline conducted at large-scale facilities. Great breakthroughs are now rarely made in the mind, or among colleagues sparring during walks on the beach, at Christmas parties, in university cafeterias, or late-into-the-night debates at conferences. Too Big for a Single Mind takes us back to this golden age of physics, when the creation of quantum theory demanded the combined efforts of friends and rivals, lovers and loners, straight-edged intellectuals and freethinking dreamers. In this stirring, grand narrative, brought to life by the letters, notes, research papers, diaries, and memoirs they wrote, we witness the birth of an idea that not only revolutionized physics and our world, but that stands as a testament to the boundless potential of genius in collaboration., How a dazzling, flawed, and unforgettable group of physicists changed the way we see the world, We cannot observe the world without changing it. This realization is what led Werner Heisenberg to develop quantum mechanics, and it was his dilemma. He wanted to explore the world, not change it. Nonetheless, he did change it. He had no choice but to change the world with his mighty theory, since he lived in Nazi Germany at a time when indifference was not an option. Other physicists had a similar experience. Not even the self-declared pacifist Albert Einstein was able to avoid world events. He encouraged the development of the nuclear bomb, and later regretted it. This is the dark side of the story that leads from the cracks in the skin at the tips of Marie Curie's fingers to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bright side of the story is the array of astonishingly, unbelievably clever and inquisitive people, and the way their minds interacted with each other. Quantum mechanics was such a strange theory that it could never have been formulated by one person alone. These pioneers were forced to collaborate, compete, and forge friendships and rivalries to bring it into being.-from Too Big for a Single Mind Book jacket., "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
LC Classification Number
QC7.H88813 2022
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