Too big for a single mind : how the greatest generation of physicists uncovered the quantum world / Tobias Hürter ; translated by David Shaw.
"The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries-Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and more-toppled the Newtonian universe amid the turmoil of two World Wars"--
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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, 1909: 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 Mid-Atlantic, 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 highflier 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 turn 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: The great debate -- Berlin, 1930: Germany flourishes; Einstein falls ill -- Brussels, 1930: KO 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, 1936: 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. | |
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