Tobias Hürter

Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Shaw, David

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Produktbeschreibung

Now in paperback: The epic story of how, amid two World Wars, history's greatest physicists redefined realityand ignited the atomic age

A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era.The Wall Street Journal

There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicistsAlbert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and otherscame together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so outrageous and contrary to traditional physics that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality.

In page-turning chapters, Tobias Hürter takes us back to this momentous time in science history, when the creation of quantum theory demanded the combined efforts of friends and rivals, lovers and loners, straight-edged intellectuals and freethinking dreamersand when, with the Nazis in pursuit of an atomic bomb, the stakes couldn't be higher. In this stirring, grand narrative, brought to life by letters, notes, research papers, diaries, and memoirs, we witness the birth of an idea that revolutionized both physics and our world at large and unleashed the profound and terrifying power of the atomand that ultimately stands as a testament to the boundless potential of genius in collaboration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615199211
• Artikelnr.: 64257154

Autorenporträt

Tobias Hürter studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and Berkeley. He has written about science and philosophy for magazines and newspapers since 2000, including as an editor at MIT Technology Review and as cofounder of the philosophy magazine Hohe Luft. Now a permanent freelance editor at Die Zeit Magazin Wissen, he lives in Munich.

Inhaltsangabe

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