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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A delightful, fun, must-read for inquisitive minds.
Dr. Glashow presents in a logical progression the seminal ideas of twentieth century physics. He spices up this tantalizing but often dry material with a saucy seasoning of his personal life history, showing that Einstein was not the only scientist who did his best thinking in cafes and sailboats. The resulting story details the life of a modern crusader, less...
Published on September 12, 1998 by jwalker@walker-co.com
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
what it is like to be a physicist
This is only secondarily a book about particle physics. It offers only a little handwaving on the physics, much the way Glashow many have explained what he was doing to his mother. It is about the people and politics of being a particle physicist. One of the most interesting chapters is an extremely detailed account of what it was like to win a Nobel prize. He...
Published on December 14, 2003 by Roedy Green
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A delightful, fun, must-read for inquisitive minds.,
By jwalker@walker-co.com (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of This World (Hardcover)
Dr. Glashow presents in a logical progression the seminal ideas of twentieth century physics. He spices up this tantalizing but often dry material with a saucy seasoning of his personal life history, showing that Einstein was not the only scientist who did his best thinking in cafes and sailboats. The resulting story details the life of a modern crusader, less decadent than Petronius's Satyricon, less fanciful than Voltaire's Candide, but a heck of a lot more fun than learning these ideas by getting your own PhD in physics at Harvard.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of A Particle Physicist and the Matter of This World (Paperback)
This is only secondarily a book about particle physics. It offers only a little handwaving on the physics, much the way Glashow many have explained what he was doing to his mother.It is about the people and politics of being a particle physicist. One of the most interesting chapters is an extremely detailed account of what it was like to win a Nobel prize. He even shows you the menus of the various banquets. |
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Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of This World by Ben Bova (Hardcover - Apr. 1988)
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