Preface Gustav Born The Scientific Work of Max Born Nevill Mott
Part1: The Good Old Days
1. Childhood
2. Schooling ? My Father’s Second Marriage
3. High School
4. My Father’s Death ? Breslau University
5. Heidelberg and Zurich ? The Neisser House
6. Student in Gottingen
7. Doctoral Thesis and Graduation
8. Military Service
9. Cambridge
10. Breslau ? Second Military Service ? Experimental Physics
11. Gottingen Again ? ‘Habilitation’
12. Lecturer in Gottingen
13. Chicago ? ‘El Bokarebo’ ? Marriage
14. World War One
15. Professor Extra-Ordinarius in Berlin ? the A.P.K.
16. End of the War ? Revolution
17. Frankfurt am main
18. Professor Ordinarius in Gottingen
19. Quantum Mechanics
Part2: Tempestuous Years
1. ‘The ‘Heroic Age’ of Theoretical Physics
2. The Approach of the Nazis
3. Arrivals of the Nazis
4. Selva, Val Gardena
5. Cambridge
6. Bangalore
7. Edinburgh, The Department of Applied Mathematics. Postscript Gustav Born