The second creation
makers of the revolution in twentieth-century physics
by Robert P. Crease, Robert Crease, and Charles C. Mann
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Now back in print, 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.
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Gro e Vereinheitlichung, Histoire, Physique, Fisica Moderna, Geschichte, Physik, Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics), Unification, Théories de grande, Physics, History, Physique - Histoire, Unification, Théories de grande - Histoire, Große Vereinheitlichung, New York Times reviewed, Physics, history, Physicists, biography, Other prose: from c 1900 -, Physicists| Edition | Availability |
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The second creation: makers of the revolution in twentieth-century physics
1997, Quartet, Interlink Publishing+group Inc
in English
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0704380382 9780704380387
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The second creation: makers of the revolution in twentieth-century physics
1996, Rutgers University Press
in English
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0813521777 9780813521770
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The second creation: makers of the revolution in twentieth-century physics
1986, MacMillan
in English
0025214403 9780025214408
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Bibliography: p. 421-463.
Includes index.
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