About the book: 2011 / The book you picked up is a rare alloy of a good presentation of the foundations of modern physics and its history. The history of science appears here in the inextricable connection of the drama of ideas in the knowledge of nature and the destinies of specific people. All these outstanding researchers were caught in the cycle of the cruel history of the 20th century, to which the book devotes many pages. The author managed to combine stories about the life path of remarkable personalities with a close, step-by-step analysis of hypotheses, theory and experiment. For a wide range of readers interested in modern physics.