EIGHT decades after its birth, quantum theory remains both fascinating and weird. So do the physicists who brought it into the world. There was Einstein, of course, and Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger, but Sheilla Jones also weaves in the stories of half a dozen others who made key contributions, centred on the 1927 Solvay conference that brought them all together. The eminently readable result brings to life characters like the caustic Wolfgang Pauli and the womanising Schrödinger. You’ll get to know the men and their foibles, but don’t expect to learn the details of quantum theory.
The Quantum Ten
Oxford University Press USA
