Stirring ... Close's ensemble drama is a powerful corrective to the myth of the solitary genius. An eminent theoretical physicist, he walks us step-by-step through what he calls the 'Third Industrial Revoluti ...
Dorian Lynskey, Spectator
Close writes with elegance and lucidity about the resulting experiments and investigations [and] the breakthroughs that led to the atom bomb [so that] the sense of wonderment and awe that drives the quest ...
Jonathan Ford, Financial Times
Destroyer of Worlds is a cogent, detailed account of one of history's brightest and darkest chapters, in which amazing scientific insights into atoms and their nuclei coincided with fascism and world-w ...
Matt Strassler, author of Waves in an Impossible Sea
Stirring ... Close's ensemble drama is a powerful corrective to the myth of the solitary genius. An eminent theoretical physicist, he walks us step-by-step through what he calls the 'Third Industrial Revoluti ...
Dorian Lynskey, Spectator
Close writes with elegance and lucidity about the resulting experiments and investigations [and] the breakthroughs that led to the atom bomb [so that] the sense of wonderment and awe that drives the quest ...
Jonathan Ford, Financial Times
Destroyer of Worlds is a cogent, detailed account of one of history's brightest and darkest chapters, in which amazing scientific insights into atoms and their nuclei coincided with fascism and world-w ...
Matt Strassler, author of Waves in an Impossible Sea
Stirring ... Close's ensemble drama is a powerful corrective to the myth of the solitary genius. An eminent theoretical physicist, he walks us step-by-step through what he calls the 'Third Industrial Revoluti ...
Dorian Lynskey, Spectator
Close writes with elegance and lucidity about the resulting experiments and investigations [and] the breakthroughs that led to the atom bomb [so that] the sense of wonderment and awe that drives the quest ...
Jonathan Ford, Financial Times
Destroyer of Worlds is a cogent, detailed account of one of history's brightest and darkest chapters, in which amazing scientific insights into atoms and their nuclei coincided with fascism and world-w ...
Matt Strassler, author of Waves in an Impossible Sea