Cover of How the Hippies Saved Physics

Book 2011

How the Hippies Saved Physics

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Publisher
Blackstone Pub
Published
2011
  • Physicists
  • Quantum theory
  • Counterculture
  • Biography
  • Physicists, biography
  • California, biography
  • 33.01 history of physics
  • 33.23 quantum physics

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.