The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics Paperback – 29 February 1996

This is my second copy of this book... I wore out the first... So it is truly "The Second Creation" for me in more ways than one.This book answers so many questions, e.g. "Why is there a preponderance of ordinary matter instead of equal but separate amounts of matter and anti-matter." Brilliantly written. I live within a 2 hour ride of Austin Texas, so with this book in hand, I located many of the researchers and had them autograph the book. They are all wondrous folks. No matter who you are, this book will speak to you!!

Extremely useful and well written book, although published longtime ago. I was reading it as a novel.Delivery as expected, the book was in perfect condition.

It is hardcover but the illustration comes only on the dust jacket. Pages have some stains and small marks in ink. The dust jacket was wrinkled at the corners and in not so good condition. That disappointed me a bit to be honest but the content of the book is so good that I decided to rate it 4 stars.

I read this book many years ago, when the first edition came out, in paperback. It left an indelible impression on my mind that stayed with me for many years, so much so that I went ahead and bought the Kindle edition as well recently.If there is only one book that you are able to read on the subject of the History and Evolution of quantum theory then this should be that book.It is engagingly and excitingly written, fast-pased, great subject coverage, at the same time evocative with memorable descriptions of seminal events, and all with a tremendous journalistic eye for detail.It is never technical, at the same time it covers a vast period of time (most of the twentieth century) leaving the reader dazzled and breathless while at the same time being educative and instructive as well.All of the famous names, locations, incidents etc are all present - Planck to Feynman to John Bell, Solvay conferences, Einstein's famous struggles with Quantum theory, all the controversies, events, philosophies, nobel laureates - nothing is left out.You can't go wrong with this book - run to get it !

Excellent!