The allure of physics turned into wonderful novels
“Gabriella Greison is Italy’s physics rockstar.” Geo – Rai

The previously untold story of the genius who was supposed to build an atomic bomb for Hitler: Werner Heisenberg.
A dark chapter in history, told from an original and surprising viewpoint that restores a voice and humanity to the extraordinary minds who changed the world in the 20th century.

On 3 May 1945, the great German scientist Werner Heisenberg and nine other physicists are arrested and held by the Americans in an English country house, Farm Hall.

For six months, secret listening devices scattered all over the house intercept every conversation of theirs. The Allies are worried that Hitler is trying to build an atomic device and want to find out what stage the German nuclear programme is at. Only ten percent of these intercepts have been disclosed up to now. This is a novel about all the rest.

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The unknown, human side of one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived. The allure of physics turned into wonderful novels.

Albert Einstein’s life and the genesis of the theory of relativity as seen through the eyes of his wife, Mileva Marić, an extraordinary woman.
A love story that revolutionised physics.

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Welcome to the Hotel Copenhagen, the home of Niels Bohr, one of the greatest physicists who ever lived. This is Physics turned into a beautiful novel.

The home of Niels Bohr and his wife Margrethe has always been open to friends, among whom were illustrious guests and the famous scientists of the time, such as Albert Einstein. Through the eyes of Margrethe, we discover the private life of the physicist and enter the genius minds of those he met.

Jumping from one memory to the next, all of them fascinating and rich in detail, we reach 1941 when Werner Heisenberg entered the Hotel Copenhagen dressed in a Nazi uniform.

This encounter between Bohr and Heisenberg will change the history of physics forever.

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From Ada Lovelace to Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin to Rita Levi Montalcini, and Maria Mitchell to Grace Murray Hopper, the lives of the most important female scientists told for the first time by one of their own.

At a time when the world is experiencing a renewed wave of feminism spanning all generations, the physicist and journalist Gabriella Greison has decided to tell the stories of the lives of twenty extraordinary women who contributed to scientific breakthroughs and human progress with passion and perseverance. As children, they too had secret dreams and ambitions, which is why we should all look to them for inspiration.

Their experiences and their legacy reflect the most precious part of our inner selves; the part of us that we should cherish most.

Twenty international and established male illustrators and artists have paid tribute to these scientists by interpreting their spirit in a series of contemporary, yet timeless portraits that illustrate each story.

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1927 Brussels: Einstein, Bohr, Marie and Cure and others are sitting around a table. This is the largest meeting of great minds in history. The only document relating to the evening is a photograph in which they are all present.
The photograph is the starting point used by Gabriella Greison to combine history and anecdotes, fantasy and reality, physics and gossip in a fabulously readable novel.

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Brussels, 29 October 1927. The V Solvay Congress of Physics has just ended, reuniting the 29 most important physicists of those times, the same ones who are about to attend a Gala dinner hosted by the Belgian royals. Albert Einstein is there, his usual playful self; Marie Curie, wise and composed as always; Niels Bohr, who is hiding his tension under a mask of joviality; and also Planck, Compton, Bragg… Exceptional, brilliant minds, but also women and men with their weaknesses and their little manias.
During the various courses of this astonishing dinner – seven courses as per the chapters of this book – the reader gets a closer look at these characters who made history, but also, as if by magic, gets to understand complicated concepts, by hearing them directly from the mouth of those who invented them. And at the end of the dinner, the reader leaves the table amused and more knowledgeable than when he first sat down.

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