SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST
'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman
'Wholly mesmerising and revelatory… Completely fascinating' William Boyd
Sometimes discovery brings destruction
When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.
Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are ...