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1、Phys.Perspect.12(2010)470496Ó2010SpringerBaselAG1422-6944/10/040470-27DOI10.1007/s00016-010-0034-5PhysicsinPerspectiveEssayReviewTheLifeandTimesofWernerHeisenbergHarryLustig*DavidC.Cassidy,BeyondUncertainty:Heisenberg,QuantumPhysics,andtheBomb.NewYork:Bel
2、levueLiteraryPress,2009,480pages.$27.00(cloth).Introduction1In1992DavidCassidypublishedUncertainty,amagisterial,buthighlyreadablebiographyofthegreatandsometimespoliticallyembattledGermanphysicistWernerHeisenberg,whichinmyopinionremainsthebestbiographyofHe
3、isen-bergtodate.HenowhaspublishedBeyondUncertainty,whichcanbecharacterizedasasecond,revisededitionofhisearlierbook,butisanexcellent,exhaustivebutanythingbutexhaustingbiographyinitsownright.HeisenbergsBourgeoisRootsandtheNewPathfindersBeyondUncertaintycover
4、sHeisenbergslifeinenlighteningdetail,givinganastutepictureofthecultureinwhichhegrewup.Hewasbornin1901.Hisfatherwasanacademic,aswashismaternalgrandfather,andthefamilybelongedtoandespousedthevaluesofthemiddleandupper-middleclasses:theappearanceandrealityofr
5、espectability,thepracticeofsocialgraciousness,respectforlaw,observanceofduty,ethicalbehavior,uncriticalpatriotismandameasureofhypocrisy.Cassidyassertsthat,Europeanculturesmackedinthoseyearsofbourgeoishypocrisyandduplicity,(p.19)anextremestatementthathebas
6、esinpartonCarlSchorskesFreudian-tingedFindeSie`cleVienna:Politics2andCulture,whichbearslittleresemblancetotheworldrelatedtomebymyAustrianbourgeoisancestorsandespousedbyotherwitnessesandwriters,norreflectsmyownchildhoodmemoriesoftheyears19251939whenIgrewupi
7、nVienna.Whateverthefaultsofthebourgeoisie,thisascendantclassmadepossiblebytheEnlightenmentandbyindustrializationhelpedtobringaboutmuchofwhat*HarryLustig,initiallyatheoreticalnuclearphysicist,isProfessorofPhysicsEmeritusandProvostEmeritusoftheCityCollegeof
8、theCityUniversityofNewYork,andTreasurerEmeritusoftheAmericanPhysicalSociety.470Vol.12(2010)TheLifeandTimesofWernerHeisenberg471wasadmirableinGerman,Austrian,andotherEuropeancountriesculturalevolutions.Nottheleastimp
