Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics, (Paperback)

from satyridae

The Faust component of the book was minuscule and the struggle for the soul of physics (whatever that might be) was to my eyes illusory. The book was, for the most part, a series of anecdotes- most of which have been more coherently told elsewhere. I was disappointed.

from nbmars

Faust in Copenhagen is a pleasant and easy read about the lives and personalities of the pricipal contributors to quantum theory. The author, the son of a Noble Lauriat physicist and a first rate scientist in his own right, probably got a lot of insight into the personal interplay among the drama...

from tgraettinger

An enjoyable recounting of the lives and big events involving the major physicists of the last century. It gave me a much better appreciation of figures like Neils Bohr, Paul Dirac, Wernher Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Lise Meitner, and others. I came away with a better understanding of them as pe...

from pineapplejuggler

My first impression is that this is one of my favorite books ever. The physicist-author's writing is very lucid and easy to follow, despite the heavy subject matter of quantum mechanics and nuclear physics. It is, after all, mostly just the story of the people responsible for the groundbreaking d...

from pineapplejuggler

My first impression is that this is one of my favorite books ever. The physicist-author's writing is very lucid and easy to follow, despite the heavy subject matter of quantum mechanics and nuclear physics. It is, after all, mostly just the story of the people responsible for the groundbreaking d...