Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics [Original retail ed.] 0143113739, 978-0143113737

A physicist himself, Gino Segrè writes about what scientists do?and why they do it?with intimacy, clarity, and passion.

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Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics [Original retail ed.]
0143113739, 978-0143113737

After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi re

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Three lives caught between the idealistic goals of science and a tyrannical ideology. Serving the Reich follows three

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"I began this book to articulate my sense of disappointment and alienation from the status I had fought so hard to

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An engrossing World War II "who done it" and a well-researched historical study of France’s deep political div

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This book is an interdisciplinary reader on the Faust theme in literature and music from the Reformation to the present.

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In the single month of September 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated or disciplined six

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