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... and remained in personal contact until Max's death. Anyone who might infer from all this that life in Copenhagen was a staid and serious business should read Max's lighthearted and facetious account of the gaiety and practical jokes of those days, in his contribution to a George Gamow Memorial Volume (1972c)
From page 74...
... . you could make observations that tell you where the molecules are, or you could make observations that tell you how the animal behaves, but there might well exist a mutually exclusive feature, analogous to the one found in atomic physics .
From page 75...
... to accept an appointment as assistant to Lise Meitner at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin in the autumn of 1932, because of its proximity to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology. But before returning to Berlin he paid a short visit to Copenhagen to hear Bohr cleliver his famous address, "Light and Life," to the opening meeting of the International Congress on Light Therapy in August, in which he explicitly stated his views on complementarily in biology (9~.


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