Alain Aspect is professor at Institut d’Optique-Université Paris-Saclay, professor at École Polytechnique, and CNRS senior scientist emeritus. Among his many awards, Aspect was a co-recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.

“[A] beautifully produced little book. . . . The book’s brevity and clear writing . . . make for an interesting overview of quan­tum ideas and their history. . . . Slim but not slight. . . . The stories here are beguiling.”

• Foreword by David KaiserTwo Quantum RevolutionsThe First Quantum RevolutionWave-Particle DualityThe Success of the First Quantum RevolutionThe Second Quantum RevolutionEntanglement Measurement ExperimentsThe Manipulation of Quantum ObjectsQuantum InformationQuantum CryptographyIn Search of the LimitAbout the Author

Alain Aspect is professor at Institut d’Optique-Université Paris-Saclay, professor at École Polytechnique, and CNRS senior scientist emeritus. Among his many awards, Aspect was a co-recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.

“[A] beautifully produced little book. . . . The book’s brevity and clear writing . . . make for an interesting overview of quan­tum ideas and their history. . . . Slim but not slight. . . . The stories here are beguiling.”

• Foreword by David KaiserTwo Quantum RevolutionsThe First Quantum RevolutionWave-Particle DualityThe Success of the First Quantum RevolutionThe Second Quantum RevolutionEntanglement Measurement ExperimentsThe Manipulation of Quantum ObjectsQuantum InformationQuantum CryptographyIn Search of the LimitAbout the Author