In 1932, the neutron was discovered and the first artificially induced nuclear transmutation took place. Physicists viewed 1932 as the miracle year. While celebrating these discoveries, Europe was moving towards a totalitarianism and war. The annual informal meeting about the frontiers of physics was organized in Niels Bohr's Copenhagen Institute, that year. This meeting had about forty of the world's leading physicists, some namely Werner Heisenberg, Lise Meitner, and Paul Dirac. Gino Segrè recreates this meeting in the book in order to preserve it for generations. Faust was the name of the skit that eerily indicated the events that would soon unfold. Segrè tries to capture all debates, discussions as well as fun that took place in this historic meeting.
