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DURING the years following the War of 1914-18, Arnold Berliner was a prominent figure in German science. There was no Naturforscher-Versammlung and no meeting of the Physikalische Gesellschaft where his small but powerful figure with the characteristic beard and big spectacles did not appear, no scientific conference where his wise counsel was not welcomed. He never claimed to be a man of science, but only a “echnician”he insisted that every article in Die Naturwissenschaften should be written in such a way that his “ mind”understand it. How few of the contributions proved up to the high standard which he set, and how lively was the ensuing correspondence ! He had a collection of the most remarkable extracts from these letters, as material on the “logy of the scientist” he liked to describe as “nhaftes Staehelschwein”rid of mimosa and porcupine). Perhaps he did not realize how well this description fitted his own character, which was the strangest mixture of infinite kindness, generosity, greatness of outlook and personal touchiness.
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BORN, M. OBITUARIES. Nature 150, 284–285 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150284b0
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