1st Edition

My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate

By Max Born Copyright 2014
328 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

In this collection of informal reminiscences, first published in 1975, Max Born has written an extraordinarily vivid account of his life and work, originally intended for his family. Ranging from his time at the University of Göttingen, where Born had his first real motivation for a professional career in science, to the period in Berlin as professor extraordinary, when he and his wife became... Read more

Preface Gustav Born  The Scientific Work of Max Born Nevill Mott  Part 1: The Good Old Days  1. Childhood  2. Schooling – My Father’s Second Marriage  3. High School  4. My Father’s Death – Breslau University  5. Heidelberg and Zurich – The Neisser House  6. Student in Göttingen  7. Doctoral Thesis and Graduation  8. Military Service  9. Cambridge  10. Breslau – Second Military Service – Experimental Physics  11. Göttingen Again – ‘Habilitation’  12. Lecturer in Göttingen  13. Chicago – ‘El Bokarebo’ – Marriage  14. World War One  15. Professor Extra-Ordinarius in Berlin – the A.P.K.  16. End of the War – Revolution  17. Frankfurt am main  18. Professor Ordinarius in Göttingen  19. Quantum Mechanics  Part 2: Tempestuous Years  1. ‘The ‘Heroic Age’ of Theoretical Physics  2. The Approach of the Nazis  3. Arrivals of the Nazis  4. Selva, Val Gardena  5. Cambridge  6. Bangalore  7. Edinburgh, The Department of Applied Mathematics. Postscript Gustav Born

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