About the Author

About the Author:
Abraham Pais is Detlev W. Bronk Professor of Physics Emeritus at Rockefeller University in New York. He is also the author of 'Subtle is the Lord...' (for which he won an American Book Award) and Inward Bound

Reviews

tells the full story in a deeply informative and yet comfortably informal manner...I find it beautifully lucid and yet convincingly authoritative Nature 'Pais has written an excellent account ... which will be a standard reference for many years to come THES '... a book that grips by its clarity and the importance of its subject matter ... remarkably timely.' New Scientist