Full name: The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

Authors: Robert P. Crease, Charles C. Mann Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Physics, Science, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780813521770 0813521777

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 Schrodinger, 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. Similar books: Thirty Years that Shook Physics by George Gamow Inward Bound by Abraham Pais A Different Universe by Robert B. Laughlin For the Love of Physics by Walter Lewin The Lightness of Being by Frank Wilczek The Theory of Almost Everything by Robert Oerter Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segre Quantum by Manjit Kumar Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli Uncertainty by David Lindley The Quantum Story by Jim Baggott The New Quantum Universe by Tony Hey How To Teach Physics To Your Dog by Chad Orzel The Age of Entanglement by Louisa Gilder The Discovery of Subatomic Particles by Steven Weinberg The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan