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

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

The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and more—toppled the Newtonian universe amid the turmoil of two World Wars.
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