San Antonio College Library

The first edition of Quest was published when Infield was forty-three years old, that is, before he became famous. At the time, he was an unknown physicist, newly married, and starting his second year as instructor at the University of Toronto. His only claim to public notice was that he had written a book together with Albert Einstein (The Evolution of Physics, Albert Einstein and Leopold Infield, New York, 1938). The second part of this edition...

"Professor, Sir Joseph Rotblat was a distinguished scientist who made a significant contribution to nuclear physics, worked on the development of the atomic bomb (he was the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project), and was suspected of being a Soviet spy. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki he became a peace campaigner and dedicated himself to the medical uses of nuclear physics and radiation. He took up the post of Professor of Physics (as applied...