Copenhagen

Name: Copenhagen
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ISBN: 9780385720793

ISBN-10: 0385720793

ISBN-13: 9780385720793

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michael Frayn

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The Tony Award—winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr. Their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle had revolutionized atomic physics. But now the world had changed and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have vexed historians ever since. In Michael Frayn’s ambitious, fiercely…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/8/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Michael Frayn is the author of the award-winning "Copenhagen" & twelve other plays, including "Noises Off". The most recent of his nine novels is "Headlong", a New York Times Editor's Choice & Booker Prize finalist. He lives in London.