Faust in Copenhagen

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
1932 was a miracle year for physics. It saw the discovery of the neutron and the first artificially induced nuclear transmutation. At the same time, Europe was moving closer toward totalitarianism and war. This was the backdrop for the historic gathering of forty of the world’s leading physicists in Copenhagen in 1932. Physicist Gino Segrè captures this moment, when physics and the world was about to lose its innocence, in Faust in Copenhagen.

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