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Title: Beyond Uncertainty
Subtitle: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb
Author: David C. Cassidy
Narrator: Joe Barrett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-28-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 53 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
In 1992, David C. Cassidys groundbreaking biography of Werner Heisenberg, Uncertainty, was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. Michael Frayn, in the playbill of the Broadway production of Copenhagen, referred to it as one of his main sources and "the standard work in English". Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atom Bomb) called it "the definitive biography of a great and tragic physicist", and the Los Angeles Times praised it as an "important book. Cassidy has sifted the record and brilliantly detailed Heisenbergs actions."
No book that has appeared since has rivaled Uncertainty, now out of print, for its depth and rich detail of the life, times, and science of this brilliant and controversial figure of 20th-century physics.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenbergs role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In Beyond Uncertainty, Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a scientists personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime.
Members Reviews:
Well done!
Perfect balance of biography and science writing. Non science-oriented people might find the physics tedious. Very clear narrative and clean prose.
What a patriotic genius
This has been an amazing biography. It is a good idea that the author decided to publish this updated version of rhe original biography. The degree of details and the way the author introduces the background made the book more engaging and entertaining.