Die Stunde der Physiker

Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg - The Great Decade of Physics

In the 1920s, it was the hour of physicists: Ernst Peter Fischer, author of the bestseller "The Other Education," narrates in an anecdotal and scientifically vivid manner the great decade of physics between 1922 and 1932, featuring its brilliant protagonists and the immense consequences that the completely new and seemingly crazy theory of atoms and matter would bring.

During the 1920s, physicists embarked on a journey to the atoms at the core of the world. In doing so, they were compelled to completely abandon the familiar worldview. Among the pioneers of the new physics were friends Max Planck and Albert Einstein, who lived in Berlin during the 1920s. They were joined by other exceptional physicists: Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and Paul Dirac. Particularly, Heisenberg acted as a creative mind, constantly coming up with wild physical ideas, many of which were ruthlessly torn apart by Pauli. The final form of this science has since celebrated triumphs under the name "quantum mechanics." Its highlight is not only the electronic devices with their magnificent communicative possibilities that we use so effortlessly today. Its highlight is also a completely transformed view of the world behind things: there is only movement, both in reality and in knowledge and thought. And everywhere, energy with its transformative possibilities keeps the events in motion.

The wild twenties of physics and its great geniuses
The great pioneers of modern physics
Atoms, elementary particles, and the consequences - the emergence of the modern physical worldview
From the author of "The Other Education.".