Niels Bohr

A Very Short Introduction

By: J.L. Heilbron

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

In this Very Short Introduction, John Heilbron draws on sources never before presented in English to cover the life and work of one of the most creative physicists of the 20th century.

In addition to his role as a scientist, Heilbron considers Bohr as a statesman and Danish cultural icon, who built scientific institutions and pushed for the extension of international cooperation in science to all nation states. As a humanist he was concerned with the cultivation of all sides of the individual, and with the complementary contributions of all peoples to the sum of human culture.

Throughout, Heilbron considers how all of these aspects of Bohr's personality influenced his work, as well as the science that made him, in the words of Sir Henry Dale, President of the Royal Society of London, probably the "first among all the men of all countries who are now active in any department of science."

©2020 J. L. Heilbron (P)2020 Tantor

BRILLIANT

BRILLIANCE ! NIELS BOHR ! THE CHAMPION. MADE ME WANT TO VISIT DENMARK. Going to listen to it again!

Do not get this in audiobook format

The printed book is likely very good. But there is too much content in the heavily subscripted equations to make this intelligible in audio format.

This book is technical

A regular listener will be booged down by the long stretches of math. This is hardly an introduction.