The Age of Uncertainty

The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century.Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only revolutionise physics; they redefined our world and the reality we live in. In The Age of Uncertainty, Tobias Huerter brings to life the golden age of physics and its dazzling, flawed, and unforgettable heroes and heroines.The work of the twentieth century's most important physicists produced scientific breakthroughs that led to an entirely new view of physics - and a view of the universe that is still not fully understood today, even as evidence for its accuracy is all around us. The men and women who made these discoveries were intellectual adventurers, renegades, dandies, and nerds, some bound together by deep friendship; others, by bitter enmity. But the age of relativity theory and quantum mechanics was also the age of wars and revolutions. The discovery of radioactivity transformed science, but also led to the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Throughout The Age of Uncertainty, Huerter reminds us about the entanglement of science and world events, for we cannot observe the world without changing it.

Product details

• Authors: Tobias Hurter, Tobias Hürter
• Assisted by: David Shaw (Translation)
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781914484421
• ISBN: 978-1-914484-42-1
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; History of Ideas, Science: general issues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Collected biographies, popular science, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Physics, Social and cultural history, 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), Biography: science, technology & medicine, Relativity physics, Biography: science, technology and medicine, True stories of discovery