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30 Max Born • Gustav Born Fig. 54 Amalie Heath, Max Born’s greatgranddaughter. an appalling thought that our children and grandchildren should remain endangered by conflicts fought with the latest quantum technologies between contemporary adherents of doctrines invented for small, totally different and long gone societies. If Max Born’s exhortation to change our ways of thinking is not followed the outlook is bleak. In 1965 he wrote: “It seems that the attempt made by Nature on this earth to produce a thinking animal may have failed.” (Born, 1968). He goes on to give reasons for this pessimism. At that time the dominant reason was the increasing probability that a nuclear war might destroy all life on earth. Forty years on that possibility still exists, the more so as nuclear arsenals spread to smaller countries ruled by intolerant dogmatists such as Iran. But this threat has now been superseded by that of climate change, which is already endangering the lives of millions around the world. Max Born has a great-granddaughter called Amalie [54, 55] who, just three years old, is such a delightful thinking animal that my friend Lorie Karnath and I are busy producing a book called “Answers for Amalie” to her memorable questions (a recent one: “I am growing bigger every day. How will I know when to stop?”). All children and grandchildren are as valuable as Amalie. We thinking animals have a duty to safeguard their future by promoting universal acceptance of Max Born’s loosening of thinking [56]. I am very grateful to Sheila Lawler and Jed Lawler for excellent assistance in preparing this lecture. References Fig. 55 Amalie held by her friend Lorie Karnath, with her mother Carey (left) and her grandparents Faith and Gustav Born. Begent, N. A. and Born G. V. R., (1970). Growth rate in vivo of platelet thrombi, produced by iontophoresis of ADP, as a function of mean blood flow velocity. Nature (Lond.), 227, 926-930. Born, M., Brandt, W. and Born, G. V. R., (1950). In memoriam Gustav Born, experimental embryologist. Acta Anat., 10, 466-475. Born, M., (1955). Dialectical Materialism and Modern Physics, Personal communication.
Fig. 56 Max Born in Bad Pyrmont in the 1960’s. Born, M., (1955). The statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics. Science, 122, 675-679. Born, M., (1968). My Life and My Views. New York: Charles Scribner. Born, M., (1971). The Born-Einstein Letters. London: Macmillan. Born, M., (1978). My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate. London: Taylor & Francis. Born, G. V. R., (2002). The Born Family in Göttingen and Beyond, Göttingen, Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Born, G. V. R., (2004). Threat from Global Warming. Letter, The Times. 26 January. Crutzen, P. J. and Steffen, W., (2003). How long have we been in the anthropocene era?, Climatic Change, 61, 251-257. Doll R. and Bradford Hill, A., (1950). Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report. BMJ, ii, 739-748. Fraenkel, L., (1901). Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Funktion des Corpus luteum (Theorie von Born). Allg. Med. Central-Zeitung, No. 103. Healey, D., (1989). The Time of My Life. London: Michael Joseph. King, D., (2004). Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate or Ignore?. Science, 303, 176-177. Krieger, K., (1996). Historicization and Political Engagement in Intellectual History. History and Theory, 35, 80-130. Lawton, J., (2004). Biodiversity, conservation and sustainability. Notes and Records, Royal Society, 58, 321-333. Moorehead, C., (2003). Martha Gellhorn: A Life. London: Random House. Peto R., Darby S., Deo H., Silcocks P., Whitley E. and Doll R., (2000). Smoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two casecontrol studies, BMJ, 321, 323-329. Richardson, P. D., (2004). Personal communication. Vidal, J., (2004). Forget climate change, that’s the least of our worries, say Nobel Winners. The Guardian, October 21 st 2004. Max Born • Gustav Born 31
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