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The End of the Certain World 2005

By Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

  • Physicists, Biography

In 1920, Albert Einstein wrote to Max Born, “Theoretical physics will flourish wherever you happen to be; there is no other Born to be found in Germany today.” The End of the Certain World presents for the first time Born's full story: Nobel physicist, a discoverer of quantum theory, exile from Hitler's Germany, teacher of nine Nobel physicists.

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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.

  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • intimateepic

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