Jacob Weisberg on Quantum

Thursday, 18 February 2010

Jacob Weisberg on Quantum

Jacob Weisberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group, a columnist for Newsweek and Slate and the author of The Bush Tragedy has these very complimentary things to say about Manjit Kumar's book:

'Manjit Kumar is such an engaging storyteller and lucid explainer of scientific concepts, that for chapters at a stretch I labored under the illusion that I understood what Einstein and Niels Bohr were arguing about. His portrayal of the characters and ideas swirling around the great Quantum debate is a kind of model for intellectual history - Modern Physics brought to life through vivid narrative. I loved reading this book and learned more from it than from anything else I've read in a very long time.'

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Abit of bio

I have degrees in physics and philosophy. I co-wrote Science and the Retreat from Reason, which introduced key areas of modern science while defending notions of social progress and scientific advance.

Published in 1995, it was critically acclaimed as a ‘corrective to the hype’, ‘thought-provoking’, and ‘undoubtedly one of the best introductions one can find to the crisis of confidence within science itself’.

I've written and reviewed for various publications including the Guardian, Independent, Times, Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Literary Review and Tehelka. I was Consulting Science Editor at the UK edition of Wired and live in north London.