
Beyond Uncertainty
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"Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book."Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read."Los Angeles Times
"Well crafted and readable . . . [Cassidy] provides a nuanced and compelling account of Heisenberg's life."The Harvard Book Review
In 1992, David C. Cassidy's 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 Heisenberg's 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 twentieth-century physics.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg's 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 scientist's personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime.
David C. Cassidy is the author of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, Einstein and Our World, and Uncertainty.
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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- CHAPTER 1 THE EARLY YEARS
- CHAPTER 2 THE WORLD AT WAR
- CHAPTER 3 THE GYMNASIUM YEARS
- CHAPTER 4 THE BATTLE OF MUNICH
- CHAPTER 5 FINDING HIS PATH
- CHAPTER 6 SOMMERFELD'S INSTITUTE
- CHAPTER 7 CONFRONTING THE QUANTUM
- CHAPTER 8 MODELING ATOMS
- CHAPTER 9 CHANNELING RIVERS, QUESTIONING CAUSALITY
- CHAPTER 10 ENTERING THE QUANTUM MATRIX
- CHAPTER 11 AWASH IN MATRICES, RESCUED BY WAVES
- CHAPTER 12 DETERMINING UNCERTAINTY
- CHAPTER 13 REACHING THE TOP
- CHAPTER 14 NEW FRONTIERS
- CHAPTER 15 INTO THE ABYSS
- CHAPTER 16 SOCIAL ATOMS
- CHAPTER 17 OF PARTICLES AND POLITICS
- CHAPTER 18 HEIR APPARENT
- CHAPTER 19 THE LONELY YEARS
- CHAPTER 20 A FAUSTIAN BARGAIN
- CHAPTER 21 ONE WHO COULDNOT LEAVE
- CHAPTER 22 WARFARE AND ITS USES
- CHAPTER 23 A COPENHAGEN VISIT
- CHAPTER 24 ORDERING REALITY
- CHAPTER 25 PROFESSOR IN BERLIN
- CHAPTER 26 RETURN TO THE MATRIX
- CHAPTER 27 ONE LAST ATTEMPT
- CHAPTER 28 EXPLAINING THE PROJECT: FARM HALL
- CHAPTER 29 EXPLAINING THE PROJECT: THE WORLD
- CHAPTER 30 THE LATER YEARS
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
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