The Man Who Broke Reality
Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
$31.45
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
After Einstein and Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr was the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He was the central figure in the development of quantum mechanics (contra Einstein with whom he clashed). Due to his Jewish ancestry he had to escape from his native Denmark during the Second World War and ended up working on the Manhattan project to build an Atomic bomb for America, a programme run by Robert Oppenheimer who idolised him. This first popular biography tells his remarkable life story, including what really happened in 1943 in Copenhagen when he famously challenged his former student Werner Heisenberg for working on the Nazi atomic bomb, and lucidly explains his revolutionary scientific ideas.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349136578 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349136572 |
| Author: | Philip Ball |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | The Bridge Street Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Philip Ball
Philip Ball
Philip Ball is a leading science communicator in the UK. He regularly contributes to publications such as Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian, The Observer, Prospect, and New Statesman.
Ball holds a degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in physics from the University of Bristol. He previously served as an editor at Nature for over twenty years.
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