WITH DEDICATION FROM THE TRANSLATOR

BOHR, NIELS. [translator:] PROFESSOR GE GE.

Ni’ersi Bo’er ji [Chinese, i.e. "Niels Bohr Collected Works"]. Vols. 1-10 [out of 12].

Shanghai, Huadong shifan daxue chubanshe, 1986 - 2001. 8vo. 10 volumes, all in publisher's uniform full cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spines and front boards. All volumes with presentation inscription from the translator to Niels Bohr's son, Ernest Bohr: "To Mr. Ernest Bohr with / highest respect from / GeGe". A fine and clean set of the first 10 volumes of Niels Bohr Collected Works.

First Chinese, and overall, translation of 'Niels Bohr Collected Works' with dedication inscription from the translator ot Bohr's son Ernest Bohr. Translator Prof. Ge Ge found Bohr’s personality and mode of thinking in harmony with traditional Chinese culture, which may be part of the explanation for his lifelong dedication to Niels Bohr and his work, and his great effort to translate and publish the only non-English edition of the Niels Bohr Collected Works in existence today. The first volume in English had appeared in 1972, and Ge Ge was able to publish a Chinese translation in 1986, fourteen years later.

Ge Ge’s enthusiasm not only led to the Collected Works being published with impressive promptness in China, but no doubt provided additional motivation for the Director of the Niels Bohr Archive to prepare the volumes faster. In this way, Ge Ge had an influence even on the publication of the original edition.

In 2001 Ge Ge received the prestigeous
Danish Order of the Dannebrog “for his
contribution to increasing the Chinese understanding of Danish science and promoting the Denmark-China scientific cooperation. He was in fact able to translate all the volumes of the Collected Works, the last volume of which was published in English in 2006. It testifies to Ge Ge’s dedication that he enthusiastically went on with the work in spite of having lost his eyesight; he died the following year.

The volumes contain the following:
Vol. 1: Early Work (1905-1911)
Vol. 2: Work on Atomic Physics (1912-1917)
Vol. 3: The Correspondence Principle (1918-1923)
Vol. 4: The Periodic System (1920-1923)
Vol. 5: The Emergence of Quantum Mechanics (mainly 1924-1926)
Vol. 6: Foundations of Quantum Physics I (1926-1932)
Vol. 7: Foundations of Quantum Physics II (1933-1958)
Vol. 8: The Penetration of Charged Particles through Matter (1912-1954)
Vol. 9: Nuclear Physics (1929-1952)
Vol. 10: Complementarity beyond Physics (1928-1962)

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