The Last Voice: Roy J. Glauber and the Dawn of the Atomic Age

Most human beings don’t manage to achieve fame. Roy J. Glauber did so for two different reasons.

Glauber was not only a Nobel-Prize winning physicist, but also one of the last surviving scientists who worked in Los Alamos in the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project. He was a witness to all the events and knew all the scientists associated with the creation and launch of the first atomic bombs.

This book is the product of a series of long interviews held with Roy over three years: i...