Serge Harush review «Light. Story », Klit Kuta

It’s the first thing every person sees at birth, rhyming with “not”, it’s actually nothing, but it means everything for life, and Goethe (1749-1832) allegedly demanded more of it on his deathbed: the light. Pythagoras (570-510 B.C.) and Euclid (about 300 B.C.) postulated that it emanated from the eye as a hot optical ray propelled backwards by the objects examined. However, in ancient times there was already an opinion that the brightness comes from a light source.

“Light. Story” is the title of the recently published book by French physicist Serge Harroche (76). Ten years ago he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his findings on the interaction between light and matter. Here he provides richly anecdotal accounts of his life as a researcher and infuses the history of research in it with Lots of facts.Harush writes: “Science is an indivisible unit, and discoveries are mostly made by combining information gathered in different fields of science.”