Quantum Profiles - Second Edition

This book updates Bernstein's original edition of Quantum Profiles with seven added profiles about prolific twentieth century physicists.

List of contents

• Foreword


• 1. John Stewart Bell


• 2. John Wheeler


• 3. Albert Einstein


• 4. Wendell Furry


• 5. Philipp Frank


• 6. J. Robert Oppenheimer


• 7. Victor Weisskopf


• 8. Tom Lehrer


• 9. Max Jammer


• 10. Robert Serber


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Jeremy Bernstein is Professor of Physics Emeritus at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and was a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has lectured often on the theory of elementary particle physics and cosmology and is the author of numerous books, including The Tenth Dimension: An Informal History of High Energy Physics (McGraw-Hill) and most recently A Bouquet of Dyson (World Scientific).

Summary

This book updates Bernstein's original edition of Quantum Profiles with seven added profiles about prolific twentieth century physicists.

Additional text

Bernstein provides unique insights into the personalities of scientists he has known. His descriptions of Einstein and Bohr's differences over what the late John Bell called the 'rotten' state of quantum mechanics, and of Bell's own contributions, are masterly.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Bernstein, Bernstein Jeremy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780190056865
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005686-5
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, History of Science, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)