Niels Bohr's times : in physics, philosophy, and polity /
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- A dane for all seasons
- 'In Denmark I was born...'
- Boyhood
- Toward the twentieth century: from ancient optics to relativity theory
- Natura facit saltum: the roots of quantum physics
- Student days
- In which Bohr goes to England for postdoctoral research
- Bohr, father of the atom
- How Bohr secured his permanent base of operations
- 'It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair'
- Bohr and Einstein
- 'A modern Viking who comes on a great errand'
- 'Then the whole picture changes completely': the discovery of quantum mechanics
- The spirit of Copenhagen
- Looking into the atomic nucleus
- Toward the edge of physics in the Bohr style, and a bit beyond
- How Bohr orchestrated experimental progress in the 1930s, in physics and in biology
- Of sad events and of major journeys
- 'We are suspended in language'
- Fission
- Bohr, pioneer of 'glasnost'
- In which Bohr moves full stream into his later years.