It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Goedel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director's mansion. It is the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; at one time or another, home to fourteen Nobel laureates, most of the great physicists and mathematicians of the modern era, and two of the most exciting developments in twentieth-century science--cellular automata and superstrings.Who Got Einstein's Office? tells for the first time the story of this secretive institution and of its fascinating personalities.
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Höhe: 224 mm
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Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-201-12278-7 (9780201122787)
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Ed Regis, a frequent contributor to Omni magazine, is College Scholar at Western Maryland College. He is at work on a new book about extremely advanced science and technology.
* Prologue; The Platonic Heaven The Priest of the Cosmos * The Pope of Physics * The Grand High Exalted Mystical Ruler * Behold the Forms Heretics * Good Time Johnny * The Nim-Nim-Nim Man Extremes of Vision * Hubble, Bubble Toil and Trouble * Carrying the Fire * The Truth About Things Life, the Universe, and Everything * Natures Own Software * Beyond the Invisible Epilogue * Babes in Toyland
