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

1st ed.

New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.

xxvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

English

August 03, 2011

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.)