Manjit Kumar
The Exclusion Principle
The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust
By Gordon Fraser
Oxford University Press 267pp £25
Just before Christmas in 2008, a woman tapped me on the shoulder while I was shopping in the local supermarket and asked if I’d written a book called Quantum. I confessed that I had. As we chatted I discovered that her daughter was in the same class as my six-year-old and that her grandfather was Max Born, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics. She had purchased two copies of my book and had given one to her father, Gustav. Some time later I received a letter from Professor Born that led to a memorable lunch at the Royal Society.
A distinguished scientist in his own right, Born told me about some of the people and events that Gordon Fraser recounts in The Quantum Exodus. This is the story of those, like Max Born, who were forced into exile by the Nazis, and others who were not so lucky. Gustav
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