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In the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this amazing family portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of research and the impossible making point they encountered. As World Conflict II wound down, and it became more and more clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein asked three close friends - all titans of modern-day science and idea - to his home at 112 Mercer Avenue in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they adored best: research and idea. His guests were the legendary philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell; the son surprise of quantum physics, Wolfgang Pauli; and the excellent logician Kurt Gödel. Their informal meetings took place far from the horrific battlefields of the warfare and the (then) solution lair of experimental atomic physicists in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Using these historic conferences as his launching pad, Feldman sketches the lives and efforts of the four friends, co-workers, and competitors - especially Einstein, innately self-confident but frustrated in his try to come up with a unified theory, and the aristocratic but self-doubting Lord Russell. Masterfully researched, this reserve accessibly illuminates the thoughts of these significant men about the world of research that was then beginning to cross them by, and about the dawning atomic time that terrified them all.
