20 of the smartest nonfiction titles for summer reading

16. "How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival," by David Kaiser

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, by David Kaiser (W.W. Norton, 400 pp.)
MIT professor David Kaiser tells the story of the band of “hippie physicists” at the University of California, Berkeley, who, in the 1970s, saved their discipline from the doldrums and helped to bring energy to the pursuit of the field of quantum physics. (June)

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