Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 582 p. Audience: General/trade. Trade

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 582 p. Audience: General/trade. Trade Paperback 565 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1994. Attractive illustrated wraps show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. A bumped corner, a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Abraham Pais's life of Albert Einstein was one of the finest scientific biographies ever written. Now Pais turns to Niels Bohr, to illuminate the life and thought of another giant of 20th-century physics. Bohr was the first to understand how atoms were put together. He played a major role in shaping the theory of the atomic nucleus, he decoded the atomic spectrum of hydrogen, an achievement which marks him as the founder of the quantum dynamics of atoms, and his concept of complementarity (which provides the philosophical underpinning for quantum theory) qualifies him as one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Pais covers all of these achievements with sophistication and clarity, but he also reveals the many other facets of the man. Perhaps most important, he shows that Bohr was not only a great scientist, but also a great nurturer of young scientific talent, acting as father figure extraordinaire for several generations of physicists. Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics, which he founded in Copenhagen and for which he tirelessly raised funds, was the world's leading center for physics all through the 1920s and 1930s, the birthplace of Heisenberg's papers on the uncertainty relations, Dirac's first paper on quantum electrodynamics, and other pivotal works. And Pais reveals as well the personal side of Bohr, the avid reader and crossword puzzle solver. His aid to Jews and other refugees in the 1930s and during the war; the tragic loss of his son Christian and his attempts during and after the war to promote openness between East and West, meeting with both Roosevelt and Churchill. Niels Bohr's Times, is a marvelous biography that captures the essence of one of the best-loved figures of this century.

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