Helgoland (book)

{{short description|Book by Carlo Rovelli}}

{{distinguish|Heligoland (novel)}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Helgoland

| title_orig = Helgoland

| image = File:Rovelli Helgoland cover.jpg

| caption = First Italian edition (2020)

| author = Carlo Rovelli

| language = Italian

| genre = Non-fiction

| subject = Physics

| country = Italy

| publisher = Penguin Books (English edition)

| release_date = 2020

| english_release_date = 2021

| media_type = Print, Digital, Audio CD

| pages = 226 (Italian edition)

| isbn = 88-459-3505-1

| isbn_note = (Italian edition)

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Helgoland is a book by Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli about quantum mechanics and the relational interpretation of it that Rovelli developed.{{cite web |last1=Bozzi |first1=Ida |title="Helgoland" di Carlo Rovelli, l'isola e gli amici geniali: la fisica dei ventenni |url=https://www.corriere.it/cultura/20_settembre_01/bozzi-fisica-rovelli-adelphi-scienze-saggio-heisenberg-quantistica-1cb61d6c-ec75-11ea-a43c-ac43602f1ffa.shtml |website=Corriere della Sera |accessdate=September 2, 2020 |language=it |date=September 2, 2020}} The title refers to Heligoland, an island in the North Sea where Werner Heisenberg secluded himself while developing the basic ideas of quantum mechanics in 1925.{{Cite web|last=Prescod-Weinstein|first=Chanda|author-link=Chanda Prescod-Weinstein|date=2021-07-07|title=No man is an island – the early days of the quantum revolution|url=https://physicsworld.com/no-man-is-an-island/|access-date=2022-02-03|website=Physics World|language=en-GB}}{{Cite news|last=Frank|first=Adam|author-link=Adam Frank|date=2021-05-27|title='Helgoland' Offers A New Way To Understand The World, And Our Place In It|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/05/27/1000444659/helgoland-offers-a-new-way-to-understand-the-world-and-our-place-in-it|access-date=2022-02-03}}

The book was first published in Italian in 2020, and an English translation by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell was published the following year. The Persian translation, translated by Samane Noroozi (Chatrang Publisher), was published the following year in Iran.