Paul Erdos

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VI
3. Foreword 1
4. Introduction
5. Preface 5
6. Joseph A. Galamb 19
7. Philipp Lenard 21
8. Part 1 Early 1920s
9. Introduction: Fleeing 25
10. Ervin Bauer 32
11. Stephen Brunauer 39
12. Ladislaus Farkas 45
13. Dennis Gabor 50
14. George de Hevesy 56
15. Theodore von Kármán 63
16. Arthur Koestler 72
17. Stephen W. Kuffler 77
18. Nicholas Kurti 81
19. Cornelius Lanczos 85
20. John von Neumann 90
21. Egon Orowan 99
22. Michael Polanyi 105
23. George Pólya 112
24. Elizabeth Rona 116
25. Leo Szilard 119
26. Maria Telkes 127
27. Edward Teller 129
28. Eugene P. Wigner 136
29. “Control” —Imre Bródy 144
30. Part 2 Late 1930s–early 1940s
31. Introduction: Before It Is Too Late 147
32. Michael and Alice Balint 151
33. Ladislao José Biro 154
34. Paul Erdos 157
35. John G. Kemeny 164
36. Olga Kennard 168
37. Peter D. Lax 171
38. George J. Popjak 177
39. Valentine L. Telegdi 183
40. Laszlo Tisza 188
41. Part 3 Immediate Post-World War II
42. Introduction: Post-War and Pre-Soviet Trauma 195
43. Endre A. Balazs 198
44. Zoltan Bay 204
45. Georg von Békésy 209
46. Lars Ernster 215
47. John C. Harsanyi 221
48. Avram Hershko 224
49. Georg Klein and Eva Klein 230
50. Albert Szent-Györgyi 237
51. Part 4 1956
52. Introduction: In the Wake of Suppressed Revolution 245
53. Laszlo Z. Bito 248
54. Andy Grove 252
55. Peter Lengyel 259
56. Joseph Nagyvary 265
57. George A. Olah 269
58. Gabor A. Somorjai 276
59. Part 5 1957–1989
60. Introduction: Escape from “Paradise” 281
61. Gyorgy Buzsaki 284
62. Gabor Fodor 288
63. Katalin Karikó 291
64. Charles Simonyi 297
65. Agnes Ullmann 299
66. “Control”—Árpád Furka 303
67. Conclusion
68. Thirty Years Later, and Continuing 309
69. Acknowledgments 313
70. Select Bibliography 315
71. The Authors 317
72. Also by the Authors 319
73. Index of Names 323