John Gribbin

Broschiertes Buch

Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

Beschreibung

Erwin Schrà dinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics.

Autor

John Gribbin gained a PhD from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (then under the leadership of Fred Hoyle) before working as a science journalist for Nature and later New Scientist. He is the author of a number of bestselling popular science books, including In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, In Search of the Multiverse, Science: A History and The Universe: A Biography. He is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex and in 2000 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Swan / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 658764
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780552777599
• ISBN-10: 0552777595
• Artikelnr.: 36550399

Rezensionen

A fascinating tale of scientific endeavour . . . Gribbin expertly elucidates the relationships and discoveries that shaped Schrodinger's thoughts, including his lengthy correspondence with Albert Einstein, which led to the famous cat-in-the-box thought experiment . . . Anyone wishing to dip their feet in the muddy waters of quantum physics will enjoy this scientific soap opera. But it should be required reading for those eager to understand how the process of scientific discovery really works New Scientist