The Magicians - The visionaries who demonstrated miraculous predictive power of

Informationen zum Autor Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant for the New Scientist . His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World , Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity ( Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017) . He is also the author of Solar System for iPad , which won The Bookseller 2011 Digital Innovation of the Year. www.marcuschown.com @marcuschown The spellbinding story of the 'magicians': scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's mysterious predictive power. Zusammenfassung A scintillating portrait of the most significant eureka moments in scientific history by the bestselling popular science writer. What does it feel like to understand something about the universe that no one has ever known before?

Product details

• Authors: Marcus Chown, Chown Marcus
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2020
• EAN: 9780571346394
• ISBN: 978-0-571-34639-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Collected biographies, popular science, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Essays, SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects, History of Science, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine