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Abraham Pais talks to Jack Klaff

30 Aug 2009

Speakers: Jack Klaff, Abraham Pais

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Physicist and historian Abraham Pais speaks to Jack Klaff about his extraordinary life and the people he has known. He tells jokes about his time with Einstein, anecdotes of Bohr, of Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauli, Godel, von Neumann and Uhlenbeck, and even about the The Bomb; Pais has intimate stories of great men and extraordinary times.

Chapters

• Abraham Pais: On becoming an historian

  3 min 38 sec

• Abraham Pais: On Einstein and Bohr

  8 min 21 sec

• Princeton, the Bohr Institute and Rockefellar University

  4 min 5 sec

• Abraham Pais: On the challenge to Causality

  2 min 26 sec

• Abraham Pais: On different teachers and colleagues

  3 min 3 sec

• Abraham Pais: On mathematicians and physics

  3 min 16 sec

• Abraham Pais: On The Bomb and the war

  8 min 21 sec

• Abraham Pais: On Freud, Jung, Pauli and his autobiography

  5 min 1 sec