Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Frayn, Michael |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 8/8/2000 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
TONY AWARD WINNER • An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.
“Endlessly fascinating…. The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year…. An electrifying work of art.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenbergmade a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend NielsBohr. Their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle hadrevolutionized atomic now the world had changed and the two men wereon opposite sides in a world Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what hewanted to say to Bohr are questions that have vexed historians ever since. In MichaelFrayn’s ambitious, fiercely intelligent, and daring new play Heisenberg and Bohrmeet once again to discuss the intricacies of physics and to ponder the metaphysical—thevery essence of human motivation.
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