Paperback with flaps
210 x 152 mm, 176 pages
ISBN: 9781911130338
RRP: £12.99
Adam Hart-Davis is widely regarded as one of Britain’s best science communicators. Here, he traces the evolution of physics through 50 of its greatest experiments.
Schrödinger’s Cat starts with the earliest attempts by the ancients to explain astronomy and ends with the era of Big Science, involving supercomputers and the largest and most expensive experiments ever tried.
It journeys from x-rays, radioactivity, and electrons to the impact of two world wars which produced radar and nuclear power and subsequently, the space race that followed all of this.
Spend some time with science heroes like Copernicus and Galileo with concise, demystifying language.
See also: Fibonacci’s Rabbits and Pavlov’s Dog
