Title: Niels Bohr's times : in physics, philosophy, and polity /
Authors: Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Bohr, Niels,; Nuclear physics History; Nuclear Physics history
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.