Knowledge and Wonder, second edition The Natural World as Man Knows It

More than 100,000 copies of the first edition of Knowledge and Wonderhave been sold, both in the U.S. and abroad. Written expressly for the general reader and beginning science student, the book describes our present scientific understanding of natural phenomena and the universality of that understanding and its human significance. Contents: Preface; Our Place in Space; Our Place in Time; Two Forces of Nature; Atoms; The Quantum; Chemistry; The Quantum Ladder; Life; Evolution; Epilogue; Index.

Victor F. Weisskopf was Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT.