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"Man kann nicht nicht wissen wollen!" - Wer diesem Gedanken Robert Musils beipflichtet, wird im "Wichtigsten Wissen" voll auf seine Kosten kommen. Mit Ernst Peter Fischer hat einer der renommiertesten deutschen Wissenschaftshistoriker ein kleines Vademecum jenes Grundwissens geschaffen, das man stets parat haben sollte und über das sich immer wieder nachzudenken lohnt.

Es gehört zu den festen Ansichten über die Naturwissenschaften, dass sie in der Lage sind, Rätsel endgültig zu lösen...

Joe Bernardi's ex-wife Lydia is in big, big, trouble. On a Sunday evening she gets a panic call from one time lover Tyler Banks to bring an envelope from his beach house safe to his office. When she arrives he is visibly frightened and orders her to leave but once outside the building, she hears a shot. She runs back inside and finds Tyler dead on the floor and the envelope missing. She races from the office into the night, fearing for her life and unwilling to trust the cops. She goes into hiding even as the police instigate a city wide search for her. Even though Joe has found a new love in reporter Bunny Lesher, he feels he cannot abandon his former wife.

Joe Bernardi was the new guy in Warner Brothers Press Department, so it was no surprise when Joe was given the unenviable task of flying to Tampico, Mexico to bail Humphrey Bogart out of jail without the world learning about it. When he arrived, he discovered that Bogie wasn't the problem. So-called accidents were occurring daily on the set, slowing down the filming of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and putting tempers on edge.

A crowded restaurant in Washington, D.C. A powerful Congressman is lunching with a wealthy contributor who suddenly rises and shoots the Congressman dead in front of a hundred witnesses. Quietly, he resumes his seat, placing the gun on the table as he awaits the authorities. Thus begins 10 days of terror, 10 days in which the nation teeters on the brink of anarchy.

Joe Bernardi's been hired as a publicist by third-rate movie studio, Continental Pictures. One night, he enters a darkened sound stage only to discover the dead body of ambitious would-be actress Maggie Baumann. When the police investigate, they immediately zero in on Joe as the perp. Short on evidence, they attempt to frame him and almost succeed. Desperate to clear himself and uncover the identity of the actual killer, Joe enlists the help of Russ Parmelee, the studio's chief of security.

In den 1920er Jahren schlug die Stunde der Physiker: Sie machten sich auf den Weg zu den Atomen im Innersten der Welt. Dabei sahen sie sich gezwungen, das gewohnte Weltbild vollkommen aufzugeben. Ernst Peter Fischer erzählt so anekdotenreich wie wissenschaftlich anschaulich und versiert vom großen Jahrzehnt der Physik zwischen 1922 und 1932, seinen genialen Protagonisten und von den ungeheuren Folgen, die der damals vollzogene Wandel mit sich bringen sollte.