Quantum Physics for Poets

Author(s): Leon Lederman & Christopher Hill (2011)

A highly-readable historical and scientific account of quantum theory, written by a Nobel Laureate and a theoretical physicist. “The advancing technology and scientific skills at the turn of the century enabled those scientist explorers to, in a sense, visit for the first time the domain of a remarkable and new alien civilization, the world of the atom.... It was as if the radical artists, composers, and writers of the age were scripting the laws of nature.”