The Second Creation
Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
By Robert P Crease and Charles C Mann
Rutgers University Press
The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" (a description of how matter behaves that can apply equally to everything) with brilliant scientists such as Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and many others. They provide the definitive and highly entertaining story of the development of modern physics, and the human story of the physicists who set out to find the "theory of everything."
The Second Creation tells the story of some of the most talented and idiosyncratic people in the world--many times in their own words. Crease and Mann conducted hundreds of interviews to capture the thinking and the personalities as well as the science. The authors make this complex subject matter clear and absorbing.
The Second Creation tells the story of some of the most talented and idiosyncratic people in the world--many times in their own words. Crease and Mann conducted hundreds of interviews to capture the thinking and the personalities as well as the science. The authors make this complex subject matter clear and absorbing.
Without qualification, this is the best account of the phenomenal story of physics in the twentieth century.
ROBERT P. CREASE is an associate professor of philosophy at SUNY--Stony Brook. He is writing a history of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
CHARLES C. MANN is an Award-winning science writer and contributing editor of Atlantic Monthly and Science magazine. His most recent book is Noah's Choice.
CHARLES C. MANN is an Award-winning science writer and contributing editor of Atlantic Monthly and Science magazine. His most recent book is Noah's Choice.
Foreword
Preface
I Waves and Particles
II Particles and Fields
Strange Interlude
III The Weak Force
IV The Strong Force
V The Great Synthesis
VI Unification
Afterword: A Note on People and History
Notes
Index
Preface
I Waves and Particles
II Particles and Fields
Strange Interlude
III The Weak Force
IV The Strong Force
V The Great Synthesis
VI Unification
Afterword: A Note on People and History
Notes
Index
