Fritz London: A Scientific Biography Book

Preface; Acknowledgements;
Part I. From Philosophy to Physics: The years that left nothing unaffected;
1. The appeal of ideas;
2. Goëthe as a scientist;
3. How absolute is our knowledge?;
4. How do we come to know things?;
5. London's teachers in philosophy;
6. Husserl's teachings;
7. Expectations of things to come;
8. The thesis in philosophy;
9. Tolman's principle of similitude;
10. The necessary clarifications;
11. Work on quantum theory;
12. Transformation theory;
13. Unsuccessful attempts at unification;
Part II. The Years in Berlin and the Beginnings of Quantum Chemistry: The mysterious bond;
14. London in Zürich;
15. Binding forces;
16. The Pauli principle;
17. Reactions to the Heitler-London paper;
18. Polyelectronic molecules and the application of group theory to problems of chemical valence;
19. Chemists as physicists?;
20. London's first contacts in Berlin;
21. Marriage;
22. Job offers;
23. Intermolecular forces;
24. The book which could not be written;
25. Leningrad and Rome;
26. Difficulties with group theory;
27. Linus Pauling's resonance structures;
28. Robert Mulliken's molecular orbitals;
Part III. Oxford and Superconductivity: The rise of the Nazis;
29. Going to Oxford;
30. Lindemann, Simon and Heinz London;
31. Electricity in the very cold;
32. The end of old certainties;
33. The thermodynamic treatment;
34. The theory of Fritz and Heinz London;
35. Initial reactions by von Laue;
36. The discussion at the Royal Society;
37. Termination of the ICI fellowship;
Part IV. Paris and Superfluidity: The Front Populaire;
38. The article in Nature 1937 and 'Nouvelle Conception';
39. Laue again;
40. The structure of solid helium;
41. The peculiar properties of helium;
42. Bose-Einstein condensation;
43. The note in Nature;
44. The two-fluid model;
45. The trip to Jerusalem;
46. Leaving again;
47. The observer in quantum mechanics;
Part V. United States and the Typing up of Loose Ends: Duke University, North Carolina;
48. The Soviet Union, Kapitza and Landau;
49. The war years;
50. The 1946 Cambridge Conference; Unsettled and unsettling issues in superfluidity and superconductivity;
51. Heisenberg's theory and London's program for a microscopic theory;
52. More problems with Laue; Hopeful signs from helium-3;
53. 'Second sound' at very low temperatures;
54. Writing Superfluids;
55. The trip to Europe;
56. Some developments in superconductivity;
57. An ugly finale;
58. Could Landau be right?;
59. The worrisome realities of the post-war era;
60. The second volume of Superfluids;
61. William Fairbank;
62. Further developments;
63. The Lorentz Model;
64. Consultantship at Los Alamos and the interview for security clearance;
65. The last days; List of publications of Fritz London; Bibliography.