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Beyond Uncertainty Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb is an excellent work of scholarship and makes Heisenbergs work and life accessible to the general reader, while remaining important and interesting for the historian and scientist. Along with Wernher von Braun, Heisenbergs career under Hitler represents perhaps the best twentieth-century example of a faustian bargain with evil for the advancement of knowledge and science. Cassidy tells this story with nuance and passion.Mark Walker, author of Nazi Science Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic BombIn 1992, David C. Cassidys groundbreaking biography of Werner Heisenberg, Uncertainty, was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. Michael Frayn, in the Playbill of the Broadway production of Copenhagen, referred to it as one of his main sources and the standard work in English.
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Historian of science at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. For more information, see http://www.dcassidybooks.com/dc.html
