John Stewart Bell and Twentieth Century Physics

By Andrew Whitaker,

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This book gives a readable non-mathematical account of the upbringing, education and academic achievement of John Stewart Bell, the celebrated physicist from Belfast, who was born in 1928.

Bell has become famous for what he described as his 'hobby', analysing the fundamental aspects of quantum theory, where he clarified a…

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1 author picked John Stewart Bell and Twentieth Century Physics as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

John Steward Bell is one of the giants of the twentieth-century sciences, sitting beside Einstein, Bohr, Shannon. I don’t hesitate to predict that history will set him at the firmament of all sciences, thanks to his revolutionary discovery of quantum non-locality. This biography is a must for everyone willing to understand the personality of John Bell, the father of what became after his sudden death the second quantum revolution.

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