Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality - Illustrated Edition

Manjit Kumar

Icon Books, Limited, 2012 - Science - 432 pages

Without quantum theory our world would not exist. In this tour-de-force of science history, Manjit Kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the 20th century.

About the author

Manjit Kumar is the editor of Prometheus, a journal that covers the arts, sciences and humanities and has written for the Guardian, the TES and the Irish Times. He is the co-author of Science and the Retreat from Reason, an adapted chapter of which Michael Frayn described as 'the clearest account I've read yet of the development of quantum mechanics.'

Bibliographic information

• Title: Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality - Illustrated Edition
• Author: Manjit Kumar
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Icon Books, Limited, 2012
• ISBN: 1848314140, 9781848314146
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Science / General; Science / History; Science / Physics / Quantum Theory