The End of the Certain World
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| Author | Nancy Thorndike Greenspan |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Basic Books |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 374 |
| ISBN | 0-7382-0693-8 |
| OCLC | 56534998 |
| 530.092 | |
| LC Class | QC16.B643 |
The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born is a biography of Max Born by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan that was initially published in 2005 by Basic Books. It was the first book-length biography of Born, a Nobel laureate and one of the founders of quantum mechanics. The book was critically acclaimed and was reviewed by Publishers Weekly, David C. Cassidy, Kurt Gottfried, Graham Farmelo, and Cathryn Carson, among others.