The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science 'A triumph.
. . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science but even more magical'
Financial Times In June 1925 twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg suffering from hay
fever had retreated to the treeless wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in
order to think. Walking all night by dawn he had wrestled with an idea that would transform
the whole of science and our very conception of the world. In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells
the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some
of the most famous Nobel winners in science. It is a celebration of youthful rebellion and
intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place. Here Rovelli illuminates competing
interpretations of this science and offers his own original view describing the world we touch
as a fabric woven by relations. Where we as every other thing around us exist in our
interactions with one another in a never-ending game of mirrors. A dazzling work from a
celebrated scientist and master storyteller Helgoland transports us to dizzying heights
reminding us of the many pleasures of the life of the mind. Translated by Erica Segre and
Simon Carnell Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times Financial Times Sunday Times
Guardian and Prospect Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
