{"product_id":"the-man-who-broke-reality-philip-ball-9780349136547","title":"The Man Who Broke Reality","description":"Danish physicist Niels Bohr was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.\nHe won the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his revolutionary contribution to quantum theory.\nHe was engaged in a lifelong intellectual duel with Einstein - and modern experiments have vindicated his view.\nDuring the Second World War, he debated with Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen about his former student's work on the Nazi atomic bomb.\nHe escaped Nazi-occupied Denmark and was welcomed by Robert Oppenheimer to the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb. \nHe campaigned tirelessly for international arms control during the Cold War.\nHe was a prime mover behind the establishment of CERN, the centre for nuclear physics in Switzerland.\nThe Man Who Broke Reality, by acclaimed science writer Philip Ball, is a compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most inventive and iconoclastic thinkers - a scientist whose insights continue to shape our understanding of the universe and our place within it.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67719993426208,"sku":"9780349136547","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780349136547_3108082.jpg?v=1791653639","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-man-who-broke-reality-philip-ball-9780349136547","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}