New Releases by Manjit Kumar

Manjit Kumar is the author of Fellowship of Rivals (2025), Quantum - Illustrated Edition (2012), Quántum (2012), Kwantowy świat (2012), Le grand roman de la physique quantique (2011).

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Fellowship of Rivals

release date: Jun 01, 2025

Quantum - Illustrated Edition

release date: Nov 01, 2012
Quantum - Illustrated Edition
Manjit Kumar''s superlative history of science''s most fundamental revolution - in a brilliant illustrated edition. In this striking and sumptuous two-colour edition, Manjit Kumar''s BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Quantum is wonderfully enriched by over 200 photos, artwork, maps and diagrams. It includes photos, some intimate and often little-seen before, of all the key protagonists; reproductions of key documents such as revealing letters and correspondence; detailed diagrams explaining the science and bringing to life classic thought experiments; and evocative portraits of the period, particularly of Cambridge, Copenhagen and Germany of the 1920s and 30s.

Quántum

release date: Jun 01, 2012
Quántum
Quántum nos presenta la historia del conflicto entre dos de los intelectos más poderosos de su época, el famosísimo Einstein y el menos conocido pero no por ello menos brillante danés Niels Bohr. Se trata de un relato exhaustivo y brillante de varias décadas de descubrimientos y debates emocionalmente muy cargados y de amistades y rivalidades que sobrevivieron a las dos guerras mundiales. Un libro que trasciende los géneros histórico, científico, biográfico y filosófico, integrándolos en un texto apasionante, a la vez que un retrato íntimo e inteligente de las personas que llevaron a cabo los descubrimientos más importantes de la ciencia moderna.

Kwantowy świat

release date: Jan 01, 2012

Le grand roman de la physique quantique

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Le grand roman de la physique quantique
Einstein, Bohr... et le débat sur la nature de la réalité Du 24 au 29 octobre 1927 se tint à Bruxelles le cinquième congrès Solvay sur le thème « Electrons et photons ». il résume la période la plus spectaculaire de l''histoire de la physique. Avec la présence de dix-sept titulaires ou futurs lauréats du Prix Nobel sur les vingt-neuf participants, ce congrès fut l''une des plus remarquables rencontres de cerveaux qui se soient jamais tenues. Il marquera aussi la fin d''une ère de créativité en physique comparable à la révolution scientifique du XVIIe menée par Galilée et Newton. Manjit Kuman fait revivre sous nos yeux les différentes confrontations de cette époque où la découverte de la double nature de la lumière et du rayonnement ébranla toute la communauté scientifique. Mème si dès 1905, Einstein, avait déjà une idée de ce que pouvait ètre la mécanique quantique, il ne pouvait imaginer le chemin particulièrement nouveau qu''emprunterait Niles Bohr. Derrière les théories les plus abstraites, Kumar nous décrit l''affrontement des hommes qui, malgré leur intelligence hors norme, peuvent se comporter avec une extrème violence pour défendre leur conviction. Planck, de Broglie, Pauli, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Dirac... Quelles visions de la réalité avaient-ils ? Certains partageaient l''esprit d''école de Copenhague et considéraient que le réalité dépendait des conditions expérimentales suivies. D''autres estimaient que « Dieu » ne jouait pas aux dés et que le fameux chat de Schrödinger était soit bien mort soit bien vivant ! Aujourd''hui encore la question n''est toujours pas réglée. C''est ce que nous raconte brillamment le livre de Manjit Kuman. traduit de l''anglais par Bernard Sigaud

Kwantum

release date: Jan 01, 2010
Kwantum
Geschiedenis van de natuurkunde, met nadruk op de kwantumtheorie.

Quantum

release date: Oct 02, 2008
Quantum
''This is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reason ... Take it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens'' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this magisterial book, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its core. Quantum theory looks at the very building blocks of our world, the particles and processes without which it could not exist. Yet for 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itself. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century. Quantum theory is weird. In 1905, Albert Einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying a century of experiments. Werner Heisenberg''s uncertainty principle and Erwin Schrodinger''s famous dead-and-alive cat are similarly strange. As Niels Bohr said, if you weren''t shocked by quantum theory, you didn''t really understand it. While "Quantum" sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age, Kumar''s centrepiece is the conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science. ''Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved'', lamented the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. But in "Quantum", Kumar brings Einstein back to the centre of the quantum debate. "Quantum" is the essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of brilliant men at its heart.

Science and the Retreat from Reason

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Science and the Retreat from Reason
This book looks for the roots of the public''s waning faith in science. Providing a clear and accessible introduction to key areas of modern scientific thought, the authors challenge our new fear and loathing of science.

A numerical integration method for the correction of widths and shapes of lines on x-ray powder photographs

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