Very good with very good dust jacket. Occasional red or blue dot in margin marks a paragraph. Book is lightly bumped at bottom of spine. Two inch light stain on front panel of dust jacket. 320 pages with index.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

A Theory for Everything

Publisher

First edition, published by Copernicus, New York, 1996.

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

0387947000

ISBN 13

9780387947006

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Synopsis

Here are fifteen pieces on the history and personalities of physics and related fields, from the well-known physicist and essayist Jeremy Bernstein. The pieces in this collection include profiles of Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, the linguist Hans Eberstark, and Julian Schwinger; essays on thought experiments, Einstein's scientific legacy, the early debate on black holes, and the cold fusion controversy; and some humorous short fiction. Most of this work has appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, or The Atlantic Monthly.

About the Author

Jeremy Bernstein is an adjunct professor at Rockefeller University and is on the board of trustees on at the Aspen Center for Physics, and has taught courses and lectured at many universities, including Princeton University and Tribhuvan University in Katmandu, Nepal. He was a staff writer for The New Yorker for over 30 years. Bernstein won numerous awards for his writing and published a wide range of technical, popular science and mouton travel books. He was born in Rochester, New York in 1929, took all three degrees at Harvard and currently splits his time between New York City and Aspen, Colorado.

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