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Article: The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2006
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The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times. By Max Born. (New York, N.Y.: Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xxxviii, 235. $26.95.)
Fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein is a household name. By contrast, though Max Born is certainly one of the twentieth century's great physicists, he is not well known. He came on the scene during the creation of quantum mechanics [1925-1927], and Born stands in the shadows of Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Erwin Schrodinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Niels Bohr. Yet, it was Born who first made quantum mechanics a probabilistic theory.
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