Nancy Thorndike Greenspan. The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born: The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution. x + 374 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Basic Books, 2005. $26.95 [Book Review]

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