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…
Part 1 covers major probems of physics and astrophysics, part 2 the philosophy and history of science and part 3 deals with memorial essays on famous physicists.
Enthält: Symposium on the development of the physicist's conception of nature in the twentieth century held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare, Trieste, Italy, 18-25 September 1972.
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 …