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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A monumental and riveting account of how a poet, a physicist, and a philosopher pursued truth to the very limits of human apprehension and revealed the fundamental nature of our place in the universe Spiraling in the wreckage of a failed love affair, Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges channeled his devastation into his work, reassessing the slippery nature of our own identities and the way we perceive reality, ultimately securing his place in the literary...
2) Copenhagen
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr, one of the founders of the Manhattan Project. Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning drama imagines their reunion. Joined by Niels' wife, Margrethe, these three brilliant minds converge for an encounter of atomic...
3) Copenhagen
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama based on a pivotal meeting in 1941 between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer - and possible double agent - Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program. Maggie Hope has come a long way since she was Mr. Churchill's secretary. In the face of tremendous danger, she's learned espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance....
5) Copenhagen
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"'Copenhagen' revolves around a 1941 meeting between two brilliant physicists, Niels Bohr of Denmark and Germany's Werner Heisenberg, longtime friends whose work together had opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who were now on opposite sides of World War II. Heisenberg made a covert trip at great risk to see Bohr and his wife Margrethe, but the meeting ended in disaster. What did the two men say to each other during this pivotal meeting that...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 607 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the Most important - and controversial - aspects of the history of the Second World War is the failure of the Germans to build an atomic bomb. Germany was the birthplace of modern physics; it possessed the raw materials and the industrial base, and although many leading scientists fled from Hitler, it still commanded key intellectual resources. Yet at the end of the war the Germans had no bomb, and their nuclear research program was found to...
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