The End Of The Certain World - The Life And Science Of Max Born, The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited The Quantum Revolution

基本信息出版社:Wiley (2005年3月24日)精装:384页正文语种:英语ISBN:0470856637条形码:9780470856635商品尺寸:23.4 x 15.6 x 3 cm商品重量:798 gASIN:0470856637商品描述内容简介Max Born (1882--1970), physicist, Nobel prize winner and close friend to Albert Einstein, was one of the brilliant minds of the twentieth century. An advocate of the new theories of Einstein and a researcher into the science that was to become quantum mechanics, he soon attracted a stream of brilliant young students around him at Frankfurt and Goettingen. This was a golden age of physics and a formative period for modern science, when many of the foundations of modern science were being sketched out in German cafes. Nine of Borna s students went on to win Nobel prizes for their work, although four (two working for the Germans and two for the US) saddened him by working on the development of the atomic bomb. In 1924 he published a paper entitled a Quantum Mechanicsa the first to label the research with this name. He played a crucial role in the development of the theory of quantum mechanics and of wave function. In the 1930s he was forced to flee from Germany to escape the anti--Semitic policies of the nazis and continued his work first in Cambridge and then in Edinburgh, returning to Germany only on his retirement in the 1950s. He always resisted pressure to become involved in the use of science for destructive purposes, something that put him out of favour with the establishment. He spent much of his final years campaigning against the atomic bomb and against the unethical use of science. He wrote to Einstein of his sorrow a that our science which is such a beautiful thing in itself and could be such a benefactor for human society, has been degraded to nothing but a means of destruction and deatha .媒体推荐"...This empathetic work!lifts a deserving figure out of semi--obscurity and adds valuable perspective on the origin of modern physics..." (Publishers Weekly, USA, 7th February 2005) "Greenspan has written one of the most accomplished popular biographies of a modern scientist to be published in recent years" (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 29th April 2005) "!an indispensable study of this major figure in one of the most profound transformations in the history of science." (Nature, Vol.435. 9th June 2005) "!very readable and well--researched account of his life!" (Focus, August 2005) "!makes it easy to warm to Born the man!" (The Independent, 5th July,2005) "!a fascinating book!if you only buy one book about physics this year, make it this one!" (nthmagazine online, April 05)