How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, by David Kaiser (W.W. Norton, 400 pp.)
MIT professor David Kaiser tells the story of the band of 鈥渉ippie physicists鈥 at the University of California, Berkeley, who, in the 1970s, saved their discipline from the doldrums and helped to bring energy to the pursuit of the field of quantum physics. (June)