Reviews

Beam: The Race to Make the Laser by Jeff Hecht

eat_a_tron's review against another edition

4.0

Hey, this was great. I love a good Engineering race, and this is no exception. Some pretty dense science-y language here, but overall pretty manageable for a general audience. Good stuff.

sdoire's review

4.0

Less dry than I initially expected. Hecht throws in info about some of the scientists' leftist politics, office affairs, and science publication bungling to spice it up. But the meat of the book -- the science of lasers and the race to produce the first one -- is pretty dang cool too.