- Published: 30 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446468821
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Faust In Copenhagen
A Struggle for the Soul of Physics and the Birth of the Nuclear Age
- Published: 30 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446468821
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
[Segrè] demonstrates a knack for explaining weird conundrums and a humane sympathy for the wrong turnings and moral difficulties of his heroes
Steven Poole, Guardian
Faust in Copenhagen provides an engaging glimpse of the process of scientific discovery
Sunday Telegraph
An engaging romp through the strange world of the quantum and its creaters
BBC History Magazine
Gripping and absorbing... Faust in Copenhagen is written with a style and skill that makes it an early contender for Science book of the year...one of the best I have read in a long time, and which can be whole heartedly recommended
Literary Review
Lively and accessible
New Humanist
Segrè unravels the tensions and conflicts within the group, both personal and scientific, and of the different approaches to the task of making mathematical sense of the weirdness of the subatomic world
Kenan Malik, Daily Telegraph