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The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter

byPaul Steinhardt

Paul Steinhardt uses The Second Kind of Impossible to investigate the Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter through a carefully framed biographical portrait. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of biography & autobiography and science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9781476729930