Max Born was one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics — indeed, he coined its name even before his assistant, Werner Heisenberg, gave birth to the theory with a breakthrough paper in the summer of 1925. But Born never received the recognition he so richly deserved, a gap that this book should help to fill. Born was the professor of theoretical physics in Goettingen from 1921 until his dismissal by the Nazis in 1933. In those days that meant he could really shape the content and quality of the research programme. This he did superbly, assembling a group of brilliant youngsters and focusing them on atomic physics.
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