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Philip Ball is a freelance writer and a consultant editor for Nature, where he previously worked as an editor for physical sciences. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and his many books include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People and, most recently, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything.
Ball's book shows what can happen to morality when cleverness and discovery are valued above all else -- Philip Maughan * New Statesman * Ball does an outstanding service by reminding us how powerful and sometimes confusing the pressures were... Packed with dramatic, moving and even comical moments -- Robert P Crease * Nature * A fascinating account of the moral dilemmas faced by German physicists working within Nazism. Impeccably researched -- Ian Thomson * Tablet * An engrossing and disturbing book -- Andrew Robinson * History Today * [A] fine book -- Christopher Coker * Times Literary Supplement *
