Breakthrough

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780571366712
  • Weight: 253g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Aug 2021
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.

'An excellent popular science book.'
DARA Ó BRIAIN

'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'
ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman

'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have ever come across.'
POPULAR SCIENCE

'Highly entertaining and accessible.' IRISH TIMES
'Fascinating, life enhancing entertainment.' PROSPECT
'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Chown has done it again.' BBC SKY AT NIGHT

Breakthrough takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka! moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Marcus Chown reveals science's greatest mystery: its astonishing predictive power.

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Breakthrough was previously published in 2020 in hardback under the title The Magicians.

Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, his books include Solar System for iPad, which won a Bookseller Award for Digital Innovation. His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity, which was a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year. He lives in London.

www.marcuschown.com
@marcuschown