Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

<p>"Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book."<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</p><p>"Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read."<i>Los Angeles Times</i></p><p>"Well crafted and readable . . . [Cassidy] provides a nuanced and compelling account of Heisenberg's life."<i>The Harvard Book Review</i></p><p>In 1992, David C. Cassidy’s groundbreaking biography of Werner Heisenberg, <i>Uncertainty</i>, was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. Michael Frayn, in the <i>Playbill</i> of the Broadway production of <i>Copenhagen</i>, referred to it as one of his main sources and “the standard work in English.” Richard Rhodes (<i>The Making of the Atom Bomb</i>) called it “the definitive biography of a great and tragic physicist,” and the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> 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 <i>Uncertainty</i>, 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.</p><p>Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In <i>Beyond Uncertainty</i>, 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.</p><p><b>David C. Cassidy</b> is the author of <i>J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century</i>, <i>Einstein and Our World</i>, and <i>Uncertainty</i>.</p>