Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

Now in paperback: The epic story of how, amid two World Wars, history’s greatest physicists redefined reality—and ignited the atomic age

“A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era.”—The Wall Street Journal

There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so outrageous an...