Now in paperback: Heisenberg's life reconsidered for the twenty-first century by the world's leading English-language authority.
David C. Cassidy is the author of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, Einstein and Our World, and Uncertainty. Professor of Natural Sciences at Hofstra University, he has served as Associate Editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. He is the only author to have received both the Science Writing Award of the American Institute of Physics and the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society for the same book (Uncertainty).
Foreword
p. 7
The Early Years
p. 11
The World at War
p. 24
The Gymnasium Years
p. 38
The Battle of Munich
p. 48
Finding His Path
p. 59
Sommerfeld's Institute
p. 76
Confronting the Quantum
p. 90
Modeling Atoms
p. 102
Channeling Rivers, Questioning Causality
p. 117
Entering the Quantum Matrix
p. 134
Awash in Matrices, Rescued by Waves
p. 145
Determining Uncertainty
p. 159
Reaching the Top
p. 173
New Frontiers
p. 187
Into the Abyss
p. 205
Social Atoms
p. 218
Of Particles and Politics
p. 232
Heir Apparent
p. 244
The Lonely Years
p. 257
A Faustian Bargain
p. 268
One Who Could Not Leave
p. 282
Warfare and Its Uses
p. 296
A Copenhagen Visit
p. 310
Ordering Reality
p. 324
Professor in Berlin
p. 333
Return to the Matrix
p. 347
One Last Attempt
p. 356
Explaining the Project: Farm Hall
p. 369
Explaining the Project: The World
p. 379
The Later Years
p. 390
Notes
p. 411
Acknowledgments
p. 457
Index
p. 458
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