George Gamow is one of our wittiest science writers. In this chatty
account of the development of quantum theory he demonstrates once
again his ability to entertain the layman. Gamow was originally a
student of paleontology in Russia (he learned "to tell a dinosaur
from a cat by the shape of the little toes"). He went on to become
a mathematical physicist celebrated for numerous esoteric theories
including his development of the Big Bang idea of cosmic creation.
His background is a cosmopolitan one and he worked closely with
most of the big European names in quantum theory: Planck, Bohr,
Pauli, De Broglie, Heisenberg, Dirac, Fermi, etc. Consequently he
can expatiate on working habits and idiosyncrasies as well as
theories. There's a hilarious version of Faust at the ends closely
imitating the meters of the original but geared to the interests of
the theoretical physicist: "My Mass is zero,/ My Charge is the
same./ You are my hero,/ Neutrino's my name," etc. Gallery goers
will be amused by the drawings, which are supposedly a mixture of
Botticelli and Pop. This is for those who do not know what our
younger educated elite is studying today. (Kirkus Reviews)
Entertaining, rigorous introduction to the development of quantum
theory traces the subject's history, from Max Planck's
revolutionary discovery of quanta and Niels Bohr's model of the
atom to anti-particles, mesons, and Enrico Fermi's nuclear
research. Numerous line drawings. 1966 edition.
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