In a wonderful synthesis of science, history, and imagination, Gino Segre, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of how the fundamental scientific concept of temperature is bound up with the very essence of both life and matter. Why is the internal [...]
A physicist himself, Gino Segre writes about what scientists do?and why they do it?with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In "Faust in Copenhagen," he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics?and the world?was about to lose its innocence forever. Known by physicists as the miracle year, 1932 s[...]
Centres on the lives and careers of seven physicists: Niels Bohr, Paul Ehrenfest, Lise Meitner, Wolfang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and Max Delbruck.[...]