Quantum Drama: From The Bohr-Einstein Debate To The Riddle Of Entanglement

Baggott, Dr Jim (Freelance Science Writer) Heilbron, Prof John L. (Professor Emeritus Of History, Professor Emeritus Of History, University Of California, Berkeley)

ISBN 10: 0192846116 / ISBN 13: 9780192846112

Published by Oxford University Press, 2026

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464 pages. 5.12x1.38x7.82 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quantum Drama: From The Bohr-Einstein Debate To The Riddle Of Entanglement
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192846116
• ISBN 13: 9780192846112
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely baffling. From the moment of its inception, its founders struggled to understand its meaning. This struggle was most famously encapsulated in the debate between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein; Quantum Drama tells the story of their engagement and its legacy.

About the Author

Jim Baggott, Freelance science writer, ,John L. Heilbron, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley

Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. Trained as a scientist in the Universities of Oxford and Stanford, and a former lecturer at the University of Reading, he has written popular books on science, philosophy, and history. His books include Discordance (2025), Quantum Reality (2020), Quantum Space (2018), Mass (2017), for which he won the 2020 Premio Cosmos prize, Higgs (2012), and The Quantum Story (2011). His books have been translated into a dozen different languages, and he has won awards both for his scientific research and his science writing.

John L. Heilbron (1934- 2023) was Professor of History and Vice Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. After training in physics, he studied history of science under T. S. Kuhn in the 1960s, when Kuhn was writing The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He was the recipient of several prizes and honorary degrees from multiple universities. His books include The Incomparable Monsignor (2022), Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction (2020), Galileo (2012), and Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom (with Finn Aaserud, 2013), on Bohr's 1913 trilogy of scientific papers.