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The Magicians


The Magicians

Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

von: Marcus Chown

CHF 30.00

Verlag: Faber & Faber UK
Format: MP3 (in ZIP-Archiv)
Veröffentl.: 18.02.2020
ISBN/EAN: 9780571360567
Sprache: englisch

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Beschreibungen

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


'An excellent popular science book.'
DARA Ó BRIAIN
'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'
ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman


'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have ever come across.'
POPULAR SCIENCE

'Highly entertaining and accessible.' IRISH TIMES

'Fascinating, life enhancing entertainment.' PROSPECT
'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Chown has down it again.' BBC SKY AT NIGHT
The Magicians takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka! moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Marcus Chown reveals science's greatest mystery: its astonishing predictive power.
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. He is the author of Solar System for iPad, which won a Bookseller Award for Digital Innovation. His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity, which was a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year. He lives in London.

www.marcuschown.com

@marcuschown

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