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E=mc²: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
What does the most famous equation in science really mean, and how did it come to shape the modern world?
At a glance
- Author
- David Bodanis
Why read it
- You will grasp why energy acts as mass, as protons pushed close to the speed of light swell to several times their resting mass
- You will learn that Germany came closer to building an atomic bomb than the usual story admits
- You will notice how credit went to men while a scientist such as Lise Meitner was written out of the story
Who it is for
- Reader without physics training curious about relativity
- Student looking for the history behind a formula
- History fan interested in the race for the atomic bomb
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