The Quantum Story

A history in 40 moments

Jim Baggott

“Jim Baggott’s survey of the history of the emergence of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic but successful theory is a delight to read. It is clear, accessible, engaging, informative, and thorough. It illuminates an important, revolutionary era of modern science and the varied personalities behind it.”

- Peter Atkins

Almost everything we think we know about the nature of our world comes from one theory of physics. Jim Baggott presents a celebration of this wonderful yet wholly disconcerting theory, with a history told in forty episodes—significant moments of truth or turning points in the theory’s development. From its birth in the porcelain furnaces used to study black body radiation in 1900, to the promise of stimulating new quantum phenomena to be revealed by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider over a hundred years later, this is the extraordinary story of the quantum world.

978-0-19-878477-7 | Oxford Landmark Science | Paperback | £10.99