Children’s Librarian Judy Zimmer recommends When we Cease to Understand the World by Labatut Benjamin.
I found this audio book – historical fiction translated from Spanish – while browsing Libby, not at all sure what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised. It’s fast paced, fascinating and I didn’t want to stop listening!
Labatut Bejamin blends fact and fiction seamlessly.
It tells the story of four Nobel Prize winning scientists and mathematicians whose discoveries have had profound effects on humanity. Some for the good and some that have caused pure misery. These four scientists are people whose names I’d never heard of before:
Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger. These geniuses paid a personal price, even losing their sanity in their pursuit to understand the world.
