My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate (Hardcover)

PrefaceGustav BornThe Scientific Work of Max Born Nevill Mott Part 1: The Good Old Days 1. Childhood 2. Schooling ? My Father’s Second Marriage 3. High School 4. My Father’s Death ? Breslau University 5. Heidelberg and Zurich ? The Neisser House 6. Student in Gottingen 7. Doctoral Thesis and Graduation 8. Military Service 9. Cambridge 10. Breslau ? Second Military Service ? Experimental Physics 11. Gottingen Again ? ‘Habilitation’ 12. Lecturer in Gottingen 13. Chicago ? ‘El Bokarebo’ ? Marriage 14. World War One 15. Professor Extra-Ordinarius in Berlin ? the A.P.K. 16. End of the War ? Revolution 17. Frankfurt am main 18. Professor Ordinarius in Gottingen 19. Quantum Mechanics Part 2: Tempestuous Years 1. ‘The ‘Heroic Age’ of Theoretical Physics 2. The Approach of the Nazis 3. Arrivals of the Nazis 4. Selva, Val Gardena 5. Cambridge 6. Bangalore 7. Edinburgh, The Department of Applied Mathematics. Postscript Gustav Born