Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics - Hardcover

Segre, Gino

 
9780670038589: Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

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Documents the 1932 gathering of some forty of the world's top names in physics, placing the meeting against a backdrop of key scientific developments while citing the contributions of specific figures and offering insight into how their unsuspecting collaborations gave way to subsequent historical events.

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Gino Segrè is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally renowned expert on high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, he is the author of A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

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ISBN 10:  0143113739 ISBN 13:  9780143113737
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008
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