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Too Big for a Single Mind

Too Big for a Single Mind


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The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries--Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and more--toppled the Newtonian universe amid the turmoil of two World Wars

There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when many of the most important physicists ever to live--Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernst Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and others--came together to uncover the quantum world: a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality.

In cinematic, page-turning chapters, Tobias Hürter takes us back to this uniquely momentous and harrowing time, when war and revolution upended the lives of his renegade scientists. As they crisscross Europe, Hürter reveals these brilliant thinkers anew, as friends and enemies, lovers and loners, and indeed, men and women just like us. Hürter compellingly casts quantum mechanics as a concept Too Big for a Single Mind--and its birth as a testament to the boundless potential of genius in collaboration.


About the Author: Tobias Hürter studied Mathematics and Philosophy in Munich and Berkeley and holds a PhD in mathematics. He has been writing about science, technology and philosophy for magazines and newspapers since 2000. He worked as an editor at MIT Technology Review and was deputy editor at Hohe Luft, a philosophy magazine that he co-founded. Now a permanent freelance editor at Die ZeitMagazin Wissen, he lives in Munich.

Translator David Shaw works as a journalist for Germany's international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, and translates from several languages, including German, Dutch, Russian, and French. He lives in Berlin.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781615199204
  • Publisher: Experiment
  • Publisher Imprint: Experiment
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Weight: 671 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1615199209
  • Publisher Date: 11 Oct 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
  • Width: 152 mm


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