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Devac · 2732 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Einstein and Shrodinger Conspired to Kill a Cat: The Rise of Fascism and the Cat Fable
There's a really nice book on history of physics The Harvest of a Century (Google preview) where you can get similar stories on people behind influential works and their accomplishments. It's much more about telling a story than giving you a science lecture, so that's a plus. Maths is kept to absolute minimum and anything past normal high school is neatly marked for more advanced/curious reader and occurs rather infrequently. Tone of the article made me recall this book, so consider it as a recommendation. :P