{"product_id":"📚-physics-paul-dirac-freeman-dyson-edward-teller-otto-frisch-free-shipping","title":"📚 Physics: Paul Dirac, Freeman Dyson, Edward Teller, Otto Frisch, FREE Shipping","description":"\u003cspan id=\"docs-internal-guid-0eceba0d-7fff-530c-2632-c4e18a09ff2a\"\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   A remarkable four-book collection at the intersection of physics, history, and memoir — spanning the lives and minds of some of the most consequential scientists of the 20th century. Together,\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Maker of Patterns\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   ,\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Judging Edward Teller\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   ,\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   The Strangest Man\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   , and\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   What Little I Remember\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   form an extraordinary library for anyone captivated by the golden age of physics, the Manhattan Project, the Cold War arms race, and the deeply human stories behind the equations that changed the world. This is a must-have lot for readers of science history, collectors of physics biography, historians of the atomic age, and anyone who has ever marveled at how a handful of brilliant and often tortured minds unlocked the secrets of the universe — and then grappled with what they had done.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003chr\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Books Included in This Lot:\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   📚\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   by Freeman Dyson\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Beginning with Dyson's matriculation at Cambridge University and ending with his 25th year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, this autobiography told through letters offers candid portraits of the scientific greats he encountered on his way to the top — Hardy, Dirac, Feynman, Oppenheimer, and more.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/cheerful-contrarian-freeman-dysons-letters\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n    Los Angeles Review of Books\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   One of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century tells his own story in his own words, with characteristic wit and intellectual range.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   📚\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Judging Edward Teller\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   by István Hargittai\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Drawing for the first time on hitherto unknown archival material from Hungarian, American, and German sources, Hargittai provides fresh insights into Teller's motivations, his relationships with friends and foes, and his driven personality — covering his pivotal role in the creation of the hydrogen bomb, the second weapons laboratory at Livermore, and his damaging testimony against physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/534709\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n    EurekAlert!\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Called \"by far the best and most balanced treatment of the man, his work, and his influence\" by the director emeritus of Los Alamos National Laboratory.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   📚\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   by Graham Farmelo\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Winner of the Biography Award at the 2009 Costa Book Awards and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. The title is based on a comment by Niels Bohr that of all the scientists who had visited his institute, Dirac was \"the strangest man.\" Farmelo charts Dirac's life from his upbringing in early 20th-century Bristol through his years in Cambridge, Göttingen, and Princeton.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Strangest_Man\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n    Wikipedia\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Freeman Dyson himself called it a biography that Farmelo was born to write.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   📚\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   What Little I Remember\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   by Otto Robert Frisch\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Otto Frisch took part in some of the most momentous developments in modern physics, notably the discovery of nuclear fission — a term which he coined. His work on the first atom bomb brought him into contact with figures such as Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman, and John von Neumann. He also encountered Einstein, Rutherford, and Niels Bohr.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Little-Remember-Robert-Frisch\/dp\/0521280109\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n    Amazon\n   \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Praised by\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   Nature\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   as a portrait of the pre-war world of physics and by\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   The Economist\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n   as a book that deserves to be read by a wide audience.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n","brand":"Unbranded","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48581282726120,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/2062\/1032\/files\/10_be4d1de0-85bb-4682-82e4-727a55d50de8.png?v=1779471703","url":"https:\/\/www.book-lots.com\/products\/%f0%9f%93%9a-physics-paul-dirac-freeman-dyson-edward-teller-otto-frisch-free-shipping","provider":"Book Lots","version":"1.0","type":"link"}