Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg - The Great Decade of Physics

In the 1920s, the hour of physicists struck: Ernst Peter Fischer, author of the bestseller "The Other Education," narrates in an anecdotal and scientifically vivid manner about the great decade of physics between 1922 and 1932, its brilliant protagonists, and the enormous consequences that the completely new and seemingly crazy theory of atoms and matter would bring.

During the 1920s, physicists set out to explore the atoms at the core of the world. In doing so, they were compelled to completely abandon the familiar worldview. Among the pioneers of the new physics were friends Max Planck and Albert Einstein, who lived in Berlin during the 1920s. They were joined by other exceptional physicists: Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Dirac. Heisenberg, in particular, acted as a creative mind, constantly coming up with wild physical ideas that were often ruthlessly torn apart by Pauli. The ultimately developed form of science has since celebrated triumphs under the name "quantum mechanics." Its highlight is not only the electronic devices with their grand communicative possibilities that we use so naturally today. Its highlight is also a completely transformed image of the world behind things: there is only movement, both in reality and in knowledge and thought. And everywhere, energy with its transformative possibilities keeps events in motion.

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From the author of "The Other Education.".