{"product_id":"9781934137321","title":"Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book.\"\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read.\"\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well crafted and readable . . . [Cassidy] provides a nuanced and compelling account of Heisenberg's life.\"\u003ci\u003eThe Harvard Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, David C. Cassidy’s groundbreaking biography of Werner Heisenberg, \u003ci\u003eUncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e, was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. Michael Frayn, in the \u003ci\u003ePlaybill\u003c\/i\u003e of the Broadway production of \u003ci\u003eCopenhagen\u003c\/i\u003e, referred to it as one of his main sources and “the standard work in English.” Richard Rhodes (\u003ci\u003eThe Making of the Atom Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e) called it “the definitive biography of a great and tragic physicist,” and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e praised it as “an important book. Cassidy has sifted the record and brilliantly detailed Heisenberg’s actions.” No book that has appeared since has rivaled \u003ci\u003eUncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e, now out of print, for its depth and rich detail of the life, times, and science of this brilliant and controversial figure of twentieth-century physics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In \u003ci\u003eBeyond Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e, Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a scientist’s personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid C. Cassidy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eJ. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEinstein and Our World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181504905456,"sku":"9781934137321","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934137321_p0.jpg?v=1763641036","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934137321","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}