About the Book: Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern
Physics
After Einstein and Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr was the most influential physicist
of the 20th century. He was the central figure in the development of quantum
mechanics (contra Einstein with whom he clashed). Due to his Jewish ancestry he
had to escape from his native Denmark during the Second World War and ended up
working on the Manhattan project to build an Atomic bomb for America, a
programme run by Robert Oppenheimer who idolised him. This first popular
biography tells his remarkable life story, including what really happened in
1943 in Copenhagen