《量子群英》【内容介绍】

　　20世纪初，物理科学被普遍认为已经臻于完美，物理学领域似乎显得风平浪静，但祥和之下实则山雨欲来。1900年10月7日午夜，马克斯·普朗克用一个公式拉开了一场物理学革命的序幕。

　　随后的近半个世纪里，在尼尔斯·玻尔、阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦、维尔纳·海森伯、埃尔温·薛定谔、沃尔夫冈·泡利、马克斯·玻恩、保罗·狄拉克等物理学史上最伟大的一代物理学家的共同努力下，人类对经典物理观提出了质疑，并逐渐揭开了量子世界的神秘面纱。他们的发现不仅深化了人类对微观世界的认识，更重要的是，也彻底改变了人类对物理世界的哲学认知。

　　在《量子群英》中，托比亚斯·许尔特截取53个时空片段，以编年体的形式引领读者重温这段集体智慧的璀璨篇章，见证伟大思想的激烈碰撞以及量子物理学对世界的全新诠释。

　　这也是国际局势无比动荡的半个世纪。政治风云和战火——特别是第二次世界大战——将这些知识精英的科学发现、个人命运以及自己的祖国紧密联系在了一起。为了各自的国家和政治理念，曾经的师生、同事和挚友或通力合作，或分道扬镳，有人展现出了高贵的人性品质，有人留下了难于抹去的人生污点。他们对微观世界的新认识也物化成了一种拥有巨大能量的实体：原子弹。它将塑造甚至决定战争的走向以及未来的国际政治格局。

　　基于大量信件、笔记、回忆录和研究报告，《量子群英》以通俗的语言记述了量子物理学诞生和早期发展阶段的一系列重要人物和事件，人性的笔触使物理学史上最伟大的一代跃然纸上，描绘出一幅科学群英的肖像。

　　作者简介

　　托比亚斯·许尔特（TobiasHürter）

　　数学博士，科学作家、记者，曾任《麻省理工科技评论》编辑，目前是德语科普杂志《时代知识》（ZeitWissen）编辑。

　　李昂

　　物理学博士，攻读博士学位期间从事量子以及激光物理方面的研究，现从事车辆自动驾驶方面的工作。

　　

"Quantum Group English" 【 Content Introduction 】

At the beginning of the 20th century, physical science was widely considered to have reached perfection, and the field of physics seemed to be calm, but beneath the peace was the prospect of rain. At midnight on October 7, 1900, Max Planck launched a revolution in physics with a formula.

In the following nearly half a century, under the joint efforts of the greatest generation of physicists in the history of physics, such as Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Born, and Paul Dirac, mankind questioned the classical view of physics and gradually unveiled the mystery of the quantum world. Their discoveries not only deepened human understanding of the microcosmic world, but more importantly, completely changed human philosophical understanding of the physical world.

In The Quantum Group, Tobias Huerth takes 53 fragments of time and space to guide readers through this brilliant chapter of collective intelligence in the form of a chronicle, witness the intense collision of great ideas and the new interpretation of quantum physics.

It has also been a turbulent half-century for the world. Political upheavals and wars - especially World War II - tied the scientific discoveries of these intellectual elites, their personal fates, and their homelands. Former teachers and students, colleagues and best friends work together or part ways for the sake of their countries and political ideals, some display noble human qualities, others leave a stain on their lives that is hard to erase. Their new understanding of the microcosm also materialized into an entity with enormous energy: the atomic bomb. It will shape and even determine the course of the war and the future pattern of international politics.

Based on numerous letters, notes, memoirs, and research reports, The Quantum Group Chronicles in popular language a series of important people and events in the birth and early development of quantum physics, with a human touch that brings to life the greatest generation in the history of physics and paints a portrait of the scientific community.

About the author

Tobias Huerter

PhD in mathematics, science writer, journalist, former editor of MIT Technology Review, and currently editor of German-language science magazine ZeitWissen.

Li Ang

PhD in physics, he studied quantum and laser physics during his PhD, and is now working on the autonomous driving of vehicles.