The Magicians

The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.

Informationen zum Autor Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant for the New Scientist . His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World , Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity ( Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017) . He is also the author of Solar System for iPad , which won The Bookseller 2011 Digital Innovation of the Year. www.marcuschown.com @marcuschown The spellbinding story of the 'magicians': scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's mysterious predictive power. Zusammenfassung A scintillating portrait of the most significant eureka moments in scientific history by the bestselling popular science writer. What does it feel like to understand something about the universe that no one has ever known before?

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The spellbinding story of the 'magicians': scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's mysterious predictive power.

Auteur

Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant for the New Scientist. His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity (*Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017)*. He is also the author of Solar System for iPad, which won The Bookseller 2011 Digital Innovation of the Year.

www.marcuschown.com
@marcuschown

Résumé
A scintillating portrait of the most significant eureka moments in scientific history by the bestselling popular science writer. What does it feel like to understand something about the universe that no one has ever known before?