James Hannam reviews Manjit Kumar

Posted on 2011/07/22 , tagged as

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Isn’t it nice when two of your friends become friends themselves? Well, here’s a Icon Books version of that happy tale as James Hannam, author of the Royal Society Prize-shortlisted God’s Philosophers reviews Manjit Kumar’s BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Quantum on his blog.

They’d get on famously in real life, it seems. Quantum ‘is a difficult project triumphantly accomplished.’ James writes on his blog. ‘In popular history of science, the aim is to mould the history and the science together without compromising too much on either. When the science in question is quantum mechanics, an author already has his work cut out trying to explain it to the general reader. Another challenge is that the history of the quantum is about a clash of personalities and philosophical viewpoints. Turning that into a readable story is no mean feat. But Kumar has succeeded on both fronts.’

You can read the full review here.