Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb by David C. Cassidy

Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb



Download Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb




Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb David C. Cassidy
Language: English
Page: 480
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1934137138, 9781934137284
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Drawing on captured Nazi documents found in Soviet archives and other recently released materials, Cassidy (J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century) offers a new view of the German wunderkind Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in physics for revolutionizing the nascent field of quantum physics, first with his matrix interpretation of quantum mechanics, then with his famous uncertainty principle. What Cassidy seeks to understand is why Heisenberg chose—indeed fought—to remain in Germany under the Nazi regime and then took a leadership role in its efforts to split the atom. Heisenberg later rationalized these activities, but Cassidy shows that the account in the scientist's memoirs doesn't always agree with evidence in the recovered documents. Heisenberg's famous wartime meeting with his one-time mentor Niels Bohr in Copenhagen is parsed in detail as Cassidy considers their conflicting accounts. Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book, though it moves too quickly through Heisenberg's 30 postwar years. Photos. (Feb.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About the Author

David C. Cassidy is the author of "J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century," "Einstein and Our World," and "Uncertainty." Professor of Natural Sciences at Hofstra University, he has served as Associate Editor of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein."

MORE EBOOKS:
Conduct Disorders: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments (Springer Series on Comparative Treatments for Psychological Disorders) ebook download
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Specialist Periodical Reports on NMR) book download
Download ebook: Eschatology in the Making: Mark, Matthew and the Didache (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)







Tags: Download Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb ebook
Download Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb ebook pdf
Download Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb ebook djvu
Download Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb ebook epub
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb ebook
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb download
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb download book
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb ebook pdf
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb ebook djvu
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb ebook epub
David C. Cassidy ebooks