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How the hippies saved physics

  • David Kaiser

4.00

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Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered the course of modern physics while studying quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading while lounging in hot tubs and dabbling with LSD.

Genres

  • Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.)
  • Physicists
  • Quantum theory
  • Counterculture
  • Biography
  • Physicists, biography
  • California, biography
  • 33.01 history of physics
  • 33.23 quantum physics
  • Hippie
  • Quantentheorie
  • Gegenkultur
  • Quanteninformatik
  • Counter culture
  • Physiker
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Physicists--california--berkeley--biography
  • Qc15 .k26 2011
  • 530.092/279467
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  • David Kaiser

    4.00

    1 ratings · 29 works

Editions

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    Blackstone Pub

    Jun 27, 2011

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    Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Jun 27, 2011

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    W. W. Norton & Company

    Jul 16, 2012

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    1st ed.

    W.W. Norton

    2011

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Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

2011