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The age of uncertainty : how physics changed the way we see the world / Tobias Hürter ; translated by David Shaw.

The age of uncertainty : how physics changed the way we see the world / Tobias Hürter ; translated by David Shaw.
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539.092 HUR
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ISBN 9781922585509
9781914484421
Classification 539.092 HUR
Personal Name Hürter, Tobias
Uniform Title Zeitalter der unschärfe.
Title The age of uncertainty : how physics changed the way we see the world / Tobias Hürter ; translated by David Shaw.
Production & Copyright Details Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2022.
©2022.
Physical Description 351 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.
Content type text
Note Translated from the German.
First published in German as Das Zeitalter der Unschärfe by Klett-Cotta in 2021.
Includes index.
Summary Note Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrodinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only revolutionise physics; they redefined our world and the reality we live in. In The Age of Uncertainty, Tobias Hürter brings to life the golden age of physics and its dazzling, flawed, and unforgettable heroes and heroines. He immerses us in a half century of global turmoil against which some of humankind's greatest and strangest scientific discoveries unfolded, expertly guiding us through the brilliant and mind-bending ideas that turned the world on its head. The work of the twentieth century's most important physicists produced scientific breakthroughs that led to an entirely new view of physics -- and a view of the universe that is still not fully understood today, even as evidence for its accuracy is all around us. The men and women who made these discoveries were intellectual adventurers, renegades, dandies, and nerds, some bound together by deep friendship; others, by bitter enmity. But the age of relativity theory and quantum mechanics was also the age of wars and revolutions. The discovery of radioactivity transformed science, but also led to the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Throughout The Age of Uncertainty, Hürter reminds us about the entanglement of science and world events, for we cannot observe the world without changing it.
Subject - Topical Term Physicists -- Biography
Physicists -- History -- 20th century
Physics -- History -- 20th century
Subject - Genre Biographies
Added Entry - Personal Name Shaw, David (Translator) translator.
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