The Born-Einstein Letters : Correspondence between Albert Einstein and Max and Hedwig Born from 1916 to 1955 with Commentaries by Max Born (1969)

by Albert Einstein, Hedwig Born, Max Born

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A classic collection of correspondence between two Nobel Prize winners, The Born-Einstein Letters , is also highly topical: scientists continue to struggle with quantum physics, their role in wartime and the public's misunderstanding.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Albert Einstein	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Born, Hedwig	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Born, Max	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Born, Irene. (Translated by)	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Heisenberg, Werner	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Russell, Bertrand	Foreword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Born-Einstein Letters : Correspondence between Albert Einstein and Max and Hedwig Born from 1916 to 1955 with Commentaries by Max Born

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The relativity and quantum theories, the theoretical foundation of modern physics, are generally held to be abstract systems of ideas, inaccessible to the layman, which no longer show much evidence of their human origin. [from Introduction of the 1971 English Macmillan edition]

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