Niels Bohr; his life and work as seen by his friends and colleagues.
By: Edited by S. Rozental.
Contributors: Rozental, S. ed.
Edition: [1st English ed.]
Publisher: North-Holland Pub. Co.; Wiley
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962; Physicists -- Denmark -- Biography
Description: The contributors, who all knew Bohr well, give a unique historical account of his life, his work, and his way of thinking.
Table of contents: title: Childhood and youth.; title: The decisive years, 1911-1918, by L. Rosenfeld and E. Rüdinger.; title: Glimpses of Niels Bohr as scientist and thinker, by O. Klein.; title: Quantum theory and its interpretation, by W. Heisenberg.; title: Recollections from the years 1929-1931, by H. B. G. Casimir.; title: Niels Bohr in the thirties, by L. Rosenfeld.; title: The interest is focussing on the atomic nucleus, by O. R. Frisch.; title: The forties and the fifties, by S. Rozental.; title: The war years and the prospects raised by the atomic weapons, by A. Bohr.; title: Reminiscenses from the post-war years, by A. Pais.; title: Niels Bohr and his youngest disciples, by J. Kalckar.; title: Review of Niels Bohr's research work, by C. Møller and M. Phil.; title: Niels Bohr and international scientific collaboration, by V. F. Weisskopf.; title: Niels Bohr and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, by J. Pedersen.; title: Niels Bohr and the Danish Atomic Energy Research Establishment, by V. Kampmann.; title: Niels Bohr and the Danish community, by M. Pihl.; title: Fifty years of friendship, by R. Courant.; title: The versatility of Niels Bohr, by P. A. M. Dirac.; title: Science and administration, by H. H. Koch.; title: Memories of Tisvilde, by W. Scharff.; title: An impression, by M. Andersen.; title: My father, by H. Bohr.; title: Open letter to the United Nations, by N. Bohr.