A Different Sort of Time

Goldstein (physics Brandeis U.) tells the story of Zacharias (1905-1986) an entrepreneurial American scientist who played an essential part in experiments important to the development of quantum mechanics who later became an adviser to the government during much of the cold war period and whose leadership in educational reform resulted in the restructuring of the entire American high school science curriculum. A clear and nontechnical account. Annotation copyright Book News Inc. Portland Or.