Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segre

Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segre

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.

Gino Segre is a University of Pennsylvania physics and astronomy professor. Segre, an internationally renowned expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, has served as director of the National Science Foundation's Theoretical Physics Division and has earned prizes from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences. The Guggenheim Foundation and the Sloan Foundation. This is his debut novel.

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ISBN 13	9780143113737
ISBN 10	0143113739
Titel	Faust in Copenhagen
Autor	Gino Segre
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-05-27
Seitenanzahl	336
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.