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CopenhagenMichael Frayn

Copenhagen

1999117 pages
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"Copenhagen is a reimagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionized atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. The meeting was fraught with danger and embarrassment; it ended in disaster." "Why Heisenberg…

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6 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2004
    Samuel French Inc Plays · 113 pages · 9780573627521
  • Audiobook · English · 2000
    Plays on Disc · 118 pages · 9780970589309
  • Other · English · 2003
    Copenhagen (Methuen Student Edition)
    Methuen Drama · 96 pages · 9780413773715
  • Other · English · 2000
    Anchor Books · 132 pages · 9780385720793
  • Other · English · 2000
    Methuen · 132 pages · 9780739409169
  • Other · English · 1998
    Copenhagen (Methuen Drama (Series)
    Methuen Publishing, Ltd. · 116 pages · 9780413724908
Moral and ethical aspectsScienceNuclear physicsNuclear warfareDramaPhysicistsWorld War, 1939-1945Drama (dramatic works by one author)