{"product_id":"9780349136547","title":"The Man Who Broke Reality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A true tour de force. A fresh, authoritative, meticulously researched and utterly engaging examination of arguably the deepest thinker of the twentieth century' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Al Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Philip Ball is a terrific writer' Adam Rutherford, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanish physicist \u003cb\u003eNiels Bohr\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe won the \u003cb\u003eNobel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e in 1922 for his revolutionary contribution to quantum theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was engaged in a lifelong intellectual duel with \u003cb\u003eEinstein\u003c\/b\u003e - and modern experiments have vindicated his view.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the Second World War, he debated with \u003cb\u003eWerner Heisenberg\u003c\/b\u003e in Copenhagen about his former student's work on the Nazi atomic bomb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe escaped Nazi-occupied Denmark and was welcomed by \u003cb\u003eRobert Oppenheimer\u003c\/b\u003e to the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe campaigned tirelessly for international arms control during the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was a prime mover behind the establishment of \u003cb\u003eCERN\u003c\/b\u003e, the centre for nuclear physics in Switzerland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Broke Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, 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":"Ball, Philip","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58870524739958,"sku":"9780349136547","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1208\/4146\/files\/9780349136547.jpg?v=1790940698","url":"https:\/\/chepstowbooks.co.uk\/products\/9780349136547","provider":"Chepstow Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}