Alec Nevala- Lee at Bookworks
Schedule
Mon, 08 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Bookworks Albuquerque | Albuquerque, NM
💥 Mon, 9/8/2025 At 6pm 🦕 We are excited to welcome Alec Nevala-Lee for a reading and signing of his new book, Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs.
From the acclaimed biographer of Buckminster Fuller, a riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who became the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century.
“In his riveting biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, Alec Nevala-Lee reminds us how weird scientists can be: brilliant, abrasive, calculating, and adept at seeing the world in ways most of us can never imagine. Nevala-Lee tracks the enigmatic Alvarez as he invents new capabilities for radar during World War II, flies as an observer behind the Enola Gay as it drops the bomb he helped build on Hiroshima, and later forges, with his son, the hypothesis that an asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Collisions is a penetrating examination of how scientific discoveries derive not simply from complex theories but from hard work, ambition, narcissism, and luck. Anyone intrigued by the history of science and the atomic age will love this book.” - Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
