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Beyond Uncertainty

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Description for Beyond Uncertainty Paperback. Now in paperback: Heisenberg's life reconsidered for the twenty-first century by the world's leading English-language authority. Num Pages: 480 pages, 20 B&W photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGT; HBJD; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 165 x 40. Weight in Grams: 557.
"A fascinating, well-documented biography." --New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort." --New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing...Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read." --Los Angeles Times "Cassidy has written the definitive biography of a great and tragic physicist." --Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Werner Heisenberg's role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In Beyond Uncertainty, Cassidy ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781934137284
SKU
V9781934137284
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About David C. Cassidy
David C. Cassidy is the author of Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb; A Short History of Physics in the American Century; J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century; and Einstein and Our World. He is the recipient of the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics from the American Physical Society, the Science Writing Award from the ... Read more

Reviews for Beyond Uncertainty
"A fascinating, well-documented biography."
New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort."
New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing... Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read."
Los Angeles Times "A page-turner."
American Scientist "[An] excellent discussion of science, society, and the influence ... Read more

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