Einstein and the Generations of Science

Einstein and the Generations of Science
ISBN-10
1351312073
ISBN-13
9781351312073
Category
Science
Pages
390
Language
English
Published
2017-09-29
Publisher
Routledge
Author
David Abshire

Description

This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.

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