Niels Bohr's Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and PolityOxford University Press, 17. okt. 1991 - 596 síður The life of Niels Bohr spanned times of revolutionary change in science itself as well as its impact on society. Along with Albert Einstein, Bohr can be considered to be this century's major driving force behind the new philosophical and mathematical descriptions of the structure of the atom and the nucleus. Abraham Pais, the acclaimed biogrpaher of Albert Einstein, here traces Bohr's progress from his well-to-do origins in late nineteenth-century Denmark to his position at centre stage in the world political scene, particularly during the Second World War and the development of atomic weapons. Pais' description moves through the science as it was before Bohr, as it became because of Bohr, and thence to Bohr's scientific and philosophical legacy. That legacy is contained both in theory as it is now universally enshrined, as well as in its practice in such great Danish institutions as Riso. But more than that, Pais captures the essence of Bohr, the intensely private family figure who, despite appalling personal tragedy, became one of the most loved cultural figures of recent times. |
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2 In Denmark I was born | 32 |
3 Boyhood | 42 |
from ancient optics to relativity theory | 52 |
the roots of quantum physics | 74 |
6 Student days | 92 |
7 In which Bohr goes to England for postdoctoral research | 117 |
8 Bohr father of the atom | 132 |
15 Looking into the atomic nucleus | 324 |
16 Toward the edge of physics in the Bohr style and a bit beyond | 346 |
17 How Bohr orchestrated experimental progress in the 1930s in physics and in biology | 375 |
18 Of sad events and of major journeys | 407 |
19 We are suspended in language | 420 |
20 Fission | 452 |
21 Bohr pioneer of glasnost | 473 |
22 In which Bohr moves full steam into his later years | 509 |
9 How Bohr secured his permanent base of operations | 160 |
10 It was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair | 176 |
11 Bohr and Einstein | 224 |
12 A modern Viking who comes on a great errand | 249 |
the discovery of quantum mechanics | 267 |
14 The Spirit of Copenhagen | 295 |
23 Epilog | 534 |
A synopsis of this book in the form of a chronology | 538 |
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