A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
JUN 25, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021227
Various : As though their knowledge of the quantum secrets came with the power of prophecy, some three dozen of Europe’s best physicists ended their 1932 meeting in Copenhagen with a parody of Goethe’s “Faust.” Physicist Gino Segrè's new book, Faust in Copenhagen forms the basis of a New York Times review by George Johnson. Joscelyn Jurich in her review for the San Francisco Chronicle , looks in more detail at the links between Fraust and physics in the 1930s.
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