In the Shadow of the Bomb narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists--J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe--came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplat…
"This book highlights the role of Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, founder of the Calcutta school of physics and the Calcutta Mathematical Society, and his talented scholars - Sir C.V. Raman, D.M. Bose, S.N. Bose, M.N. Saha, Sir K.S. Krishnan and S.K. Mitra - all of whom played a signific…
A collection of interviews with 111 notable scientists, whose disciplines range from physics to chemistry to the biosciences, collected throughout the last 25 years.
"What we know always leads to what we do not know. This book follows the historical path of the most brilliant theories in physics, and the people who made them: the general theory of relativity and quantum field theory. The paths of these very successful descriptions of the Uni…
Readers of Freeman Dyson's previous books, Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, and Infinite in All Directions, have discovered for themselves what Dyson reveals here: that he was a writer long before he became a distinguished scientist. The aim of this new book, as Dyson …
These 35 essays by astrophysicist Dyson on the faces of science and its practitioners, and on the ethical dilemmas surrounding science and the human condition are grouped loosely into stories, things, institutions, politics, books, and people. The volume includes fascinating acc…
