Book ID: CBB000550016

The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution (2005)

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Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike (Author)


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Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: x + 374 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Carson, Cathryn (2006) Review of "The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 525). unapi

Review Beyler, Richard H. (2006) Review of "The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 569). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Beller, Mara
David C. Clary
Blum, Alexander
Wessels, Linda A.
Singh, Rajinder
Schirrmacher, Arne
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Synthese
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Science
Publishers
Springer
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Biographies
Societies; institutions; academies
Wave-particle duality
Blackbody radiation
People
Born, Max
Heisenberg, Werner
Jordan, Pascual
Einstein, Albert
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Göttingen (Germany)
Germany
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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