Daivd Lindley is an editor at SCIENCE NEWS and was previously a theoretical physicist at Cambridge University and the Fermi National Accelarator Laboratocy. He has published dozens of articles and is the author of WHERE DOES THE WEIRDNESS GO? (Vintage) and THE END OF PHYSICS (Basic Books).
Alan Lightmanauthor of "Einstein's Dreams"David Lindley has written
an engaging story of science and personal struggle, set against the
intellectual climate of nineteenth-century Vienna. Above all,
"Boltzmann's Atom" shows how modern science has grudgingly come to
accept the reality of the invisible world.
David Bodanisauthor of "E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most
Famous Equation"A thoughtful account of a great deal of late
nineteenth-century physics, interwoven with the life of the
tormented, conscientious, brilliant Boltzmann.
Lawrence M. KraussProfessor of Physics, Case Western Reserve
University, author of "The Physics of Star Trek"Less than a century
ago the physical reality of atoms was not universally accepted by
most scientists. David Lindley skillfully takes the reader back to
that era and paints a vivid picture of one of the first physicists
to realize the profound implications for all of physics if atoms
actually existed. Ludwig Boltzmann seemed to pay for this
realization with his own happiness. In Lindley's hands this
poignant story reveals the transition between classical and modern
physics at the turn of the last century.
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