The complete name of the book is How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival.

The New York Times reviews it today:

Kaiser says his title was inspired by Thomas Cahill’s “How the Irish Saved Civilization,” and he has a similar aim: to show, with a healthy dose of irony, how another “unlikely group of underdogs and castaways kept the torch of learning aflame.” He reminds us that the pioneers of quantum mechanics — Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger — argued endlessly about the implications of their equations: particles that were somehow waves of probability, that hovered in superposition between two states, that made quantum jumps without traversing the space in between. These thinkers were often as engaged with the philosophy as they were with the mathematics.

Here’s a video lecture from MIT

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