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The Second Creation - Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics (Paperback, Revised)
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The Second Creation - Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics (Paperback, Revised)
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The Second Creation is the intimate story of the decades-long
scientific quest for "unification," a theory that draws together
all matter and energy, from the hottest supernovas to the whirring
fragments of the atom. Based on scores of in-depth interviews with
such brilliant scientists as Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Richard
Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg,
Robert Crease and Charles Mann vividly portray the tense, exciting
world of investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. In
telling the richly human story of the two generations of scientists
who set out to find the "theory of everything," the authors recount
a sweeping saga that moves from the early days of Albert Einstein
and Niels Bohr arguing in a Copenhagen park to the vast, mile-long
atom smashers of today. The Second Creation is a definitive group
portrait of twentieth-century physics. Robert P. Crease is an
associate professor of philosophy at SUNY--Stony Brook.
Award-winning science writer Charles C. Mann is a contributing
editor of The Atlantic Monthly and Science magazine. His most
recent book is Noah's Choice.
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