Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It

222 pp. Author worked with Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Pauli, and Bohr, and participated in the Manhattan Project (later he campaigned against nuclear proliferation). "...begins with space and time, and the dating of universal events--the age and evolution of the earth, the planets, and the stars. This foundation provides the setting for a discussion of properties common to all phenomena, of the quantum states of the atom, the nature of light, the wave characteristics of particles. ...examines the origin and evolution of life."