L'incredibile cena dei fisici quantistici

1927 Brussels: Einstein, Bohr, Marie and Cure and others are sitting around a table. This is the largest meeting of great minds in history. The only document relating to the evening is a photograph in which they are all present.
The photograph is the starting point used by Gabriella Greison to combine history and anecdotes, fantasy and reality, physics and gossip in a fabulously readable novel.

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Brussels, 29 October 1927. The V Solvay Congress of Physics has just ended, reuniting the 29 most important physicists of those times, the same ones who are about to attend a Gala dinner hosted by the Belgian royals. Albert Einstein is there, his usual playful self; Marie Curie, wise and composed as always; Niels Bohr, who is hiding his tension under a mask of joviality; and also Planck, Compton, Bragg… Exceptional, brilliant minds, but also women and men with their weaknesses and their little manias.
During the various courses of this astonishing dinner – seven courses as per the chapters of this book – the reader gets a closer look at these characters who made history, but also, as if by magic, gets to understand complicated concepts, by hearing them directly from the mouth of those who invented them. And at the end of the dinner, the reader leaves the table amused and more knowledgeable than when he first sat down.