Tobias Hürter

Tobias Hürter studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and Berkeley. He has written about science and philosophy for magazines and newspapers since 2000, including as an editor at MIT Technology Review and as cofounder of the philosophy magazine Hohe Luft. Now a permanent freelance editor at Die Zeit Magazin Wissen, he lives in Munich.


Too Big for a Single Mind
How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
by Tobias Hürter
Hardcover | $30 US / $39 CAN

There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and others—came together to uncover … Continue reading

Too Big for a Single Mind
How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
by Tobias Hürter
Paperback | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so … Continue reading