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- Publisher: Perseus Books Group
- ISBN: 0738206938
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101733767
- Release Date: March 1, 2005
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #498297 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #17699 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
- #3511 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The End Of The Certain World" by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The End Of The Certain World"Browse more products related to "Nancy Thorndike Greenspan"Publisher's noteThe first authorized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist. When Max Born won the Nobel Prize in 1954, unspoken vindication was part of the honor. For when Werner Heisenberg received the prize in 1933 -for work done together with Born, as Born's assistant-Born himself was never mentioned. Clearly, that explains Born's relative anonymity compared to his contemporaries-namely Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Oppenheimer, Einstein, and Bohr. In The End of the Certain World, Nancy Greenspan rights the record. Here, for the first time, is the full story of Max Born: teacher to the inventors of the atomic bomb, forced exile from Hitler's Germany, acquaintance of Russian spy Klaus Fuchs, and close friend of Einstein. His role in the "Golden Age of Physics" in the 1920s-most notably in quantum mechanics-helped to shape science and alter history. That Born used his platform as a Nobel laureate to speak out against the moral determinism that pervaded the scientific community at the time-the wretched attitude that consented to the creation of nuclear weapons solely in the name of scientific advancement-makes him that much more significant. A social history and a history of science as well as an intimate biography, The End of the Certain World reveals a great scientist's struggle with morality, politics, war, and obscurity. If You Enjoy "The End Of The Certain World (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The End Of The Certain World (Hardcover)" by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan (Aut...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! General Bestsellers
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