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How the Hippies Saved Physics : : Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

Kaiser, David. Book - 2011 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered the course of modern physics while studying quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading while lounging in hot tubs and dabbling with LSD.

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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 372 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393076363
0393076369

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.)

SUBJECTS
Physicists -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Quantum theory.
Counterculture.