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 and c...