{"product_id":"9780349136547","title":"The Man Who Broke Reality : Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics (by Philip Ball)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A true tour de force. A fresh, authoritative, meticulously researched and utterly engaging examination of arguably the deepest thinker of the twentieth century' Jim Al Khalili'Philip Ball is a terrific writer' Adam Rutherford, GuardianDanish physicist Niels Bohr was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe won the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his revolutionary contribution to quantum theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was engaged in a lifelong intellectual duel with Einstein - and modern experiments have vindicated his view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Second World War, he debated with Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen about his former student's work on the Nazi atomic bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe escaped Nazi-occupied Denmark and was welcomed by Robert Oppenheimer to the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb. He campaigned tirelessly for international arms control during the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was a prime mover behind the establishment of CERN, the centre for nuclear physics in Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Man Who Broke Reality, by acclaimed science writer Philip Ball, is a compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most inventive and iconoclastic thinkers - a scientist whose insights continue to shape our understanding of the universe and our place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67610361954531,"sku":"9780349136547","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9780349136547.jpg?v=1790865409","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780349136547","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}