But God Does Play Dice

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 Borns students went on to win Nobel prizes for their work, although four (two working for the Germans and two for the U.S.) saddened him by working on the development of the atomic bomb. But God Does Play Dice is an accessible, but extensively researched (5 years work) authorized biography of a key contributor to the history of the 20th century and to our modern world.