Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Coming to America. 2. Ethically Cultured. 3. Ethically Schooled. 4. The Damning Lie. 5. Summa Cum Laude. 6. Getting Near the Center. 7. A Taste for Physics. 8. Coming of Age. 9. Professor of Physics. 10. Cosmic Connections. 11. Depression and War. 12. The Organic Necessity. 13. Dropping the Bomb. 14. State Scientist. 15. Icon of Physics. 16. Good Soldiers. 17. Insecurity Hearings. 18. Exile. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Appendix 3. Appendix 4. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

Dr. David C. Cassidy is a Professor in the Natural Science Program at Hofstra University, and has been Chair of the Section for History and Philosophy of Science of the New York Academy of Sciences. He served for seven years as Associate Editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and has been an editorial consultant for the collected works of Heisenberg, Bohr and Pauli. His book, Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg has been widely acclaimed and translated into five foreign languages. He has been awarded the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award and the Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society. He is also the author of Einstein and our World and wrote the introduction to Scientists at War: The Farm Hall Transcripts edited by J. Bernstein. He lives on Long Island in New York. A A(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.