How the hippies saved physics : science, counterculture, and the quantum revival /

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Author / Creator:Kaiser, David.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Description:xxvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.)
Physicists -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
Quantum theory.
Counterculture.
Counterculture.
Physicists.
Quantum theory.
California -- Berkeley.
Biography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8437386
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Other authors / contributors:Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.)
ISBN:9780393076363 (hardcover)
0393076369 (hardcover)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: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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