Michael Frayn's
Copenhagen
in Debate
Historical Essays and Documents
On the 1941 Meeting Between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg
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Published August 2005

Office for History of Science and Technology

University of California, Berkeley

195 pp.
Paperback
ISBN 0-9672617-2-4
Price: $12.00

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