Faced with this state of affairs, he left for Dresden but did not find a position there either - he sought to enter service at the Saxon court or the Elector's army.
He left again for Paris and learned about the war in America - the war for American independence - t ...
When Ernest Rutherford introduced him to the Danish Nobel laureate Niels Bohr at a university conference, he was delighted and the conversation with him restored his confidence in his own abilities and skills. He decided to pursue theoretical physics.
He chose to go to the world center of theoretical physics - the University of Göttingen, where he co ...
At the age of 27, he married the widowed aristocrat Josephine de Beauharnais (she was the mistress of many influential politicians after her husband's death).
After marrying Josephine, Buonaparte changed his name, giving it a French spelling and pronunciation ...