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RefNoMM/24/14
LevelItem
TitleReminiscences, 'Ehrenfest', by Myer Salaman
Daten.d.
DescriptionAn account by Dr Myer Salaman of his meeting Paul Ehrenfest in Oxford in 1926 and a subsequent visit to see the physicist and his family in Leiden. Gives a smalll anecdote of Albert Einstein and describes Ehrenfest's office. Concludes with an account by Paul Dirac of his last meeting with Ehrenfest, who was staying with Niels Bohr. Describes Ehrenfest's depression and subsequent suicide.
Extent2p.
FormatComputer printout
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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