Gino SegrÃ¨
A fascinating look at the landmark 1932 gathering of the biggest names in physics, , Known by physicists as the â€œmiracle year,â€ 1932 saw the discovery of the neutron and the first artificially induced nuclear transmutation. However, while physicists celebrated these momentous discoveriesâ€”which presaged the era of big science and nuclear bombsâ€”Europe was moving inexorably toward totalitarianism and war. In April of that year, about forty of the worldâ€™s leading physicistsâ€”including Werner Heisenberg, Lise Meitner, and Paul Diracâ€”came to Niels Bohrâ€™s Copenhagen Institute for their annual informal meeting about the frontiers of physics. , Physicist Gino SegrÃ¨ brings to life this historic gathering, which ended with a humorous skit based on Goetheâ€™s ,Faust,â€”a skit that eerily foreshadowed events that would soon unfold. Little did the scientists know the Faustian bargains they would face in the near future. Capturing the interplay between the great scientists as well as the discoveries they discussed and debated, SegrÃ¨ evokes the moment when physicsâ€”and the worldâ€”was about to lose its innocence.
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Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics