#1325 Philip Ball - The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
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Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Descenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined for a third time by Dr. Philip Ball. And today we're going to talk about his latest book, his new book, actually, The Man Who Broke Reality, Niels Bohr, and the Making of Modern Physics. So Doctor Ball, welcome back to the show. It's always a great pleasure to everyone. Oh well thank you. It's always a great pleasure to do it. So Uh I'm in Nilsbore. Um of course
Many people have at least heard the name, but Who was Nilsbor, actually? I I mean before we get into his scientific contributions, particularly to the field of physics, even though We might also Get the chance to talk here a little bit about some other things that he might have said about other fields of science, but uh tell us first a little bit about his origins, his early life and
How we became a physicist. Right. Okay, sure. Well I mean here he is. On the cover of the book. Yeah. Um And uh in fact I just realized I found out yesterday that this image of him is him giving a lecture at Yale University.
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