Beyond Weird - Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics Is Different

Informationen zum Autor Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water and The Music Instinct. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Ball, Ball Philip
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780226558387
• ISBN: 978-0-226-55838-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)