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Faust in Copenhagen : a struggle for the soul of physics /

Known to physicists as the "miracle year," 1932 saw the discovery of the neutron and the first artificially induced nuclear transmutation. However, while physicists celebrated these momentous discoveries--which presaged the era of big science and nuclear bombs--Europe was moving inexorably...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Segrè, Gino
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, 2007.
Subjects:	Physicists > Psychology. Physicists > Intellectual life > 20th century. Quantum theory > History > 20th century.

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