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What is your favorite biography of a physicist?
I’ve recently read A Mind Over Matter, which is a biography about condensed matter physicist Philip Anderson (who discovered Anderson localization, certain pivotal applications of spontaneous symmetry breaking and many more). It was a great read and I even shared my thoughts in the youtube video I’ve linked here. Other biographies that I would really want to read are:
- Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais (an apparently really good Einstein biography that doesn’t shy away from having maths in it)
- The Beat of a Different Drum by Jaghdish Mehra (a Richard Feynman biography that also pays attention to technical details)
There are many other ones that I am curious about, but I’d love to hear some of the ones you enjoyed.
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I’ve recently read A Mind Over Matter, which is a biography about condensed matter physicist Philip Anderson (who discovered Anderson localization, certain pivotal applications of spontaneous symmetry breaking and many more). It was a great read and I even shared my thoughts in the youtube video I’ve linked here. Other biographies that I would really want to read are:
- Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais (an apparently really good Einstein biography that doesn’t shy away from having maths in it)
- The Beat of a Different Drum by Jaghdish Mehra (a Richard Feynman biography that also pays attention to technical details)
There are many other ones that I am curious about, but I’d love to hear some of the ones you enjoyed.
#science
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