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IN HIS latest book, Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution, prolific science writer John Gribbin tells a fascinating tale of scientific endeavour starring Schrödinger – a man as complex and unpredictable as the phenomena he studied. As the major players in the book show, the German-speaking world dominated science in the first half of the 20th century, and nowhere more so than in quantum physics.
From Max Born to Ludwig Boltzmann, Friedrich Hasenöhrl to Werner…
