In Munich, 1920, early association with Erwin Schrd̲inger; Stuttgart, 1921-1937; comments on Arnold Sommerfeld and Fritz Emde as physicists; work with Carl Hermann on crystal structures; crystal conference, 1925 (Bragg). Establishment of Ewald's Institute, 1930; early association with Hans Bethe. Nazi influence in professional scientific societies and schools; student unrest; Albert Einstein's resignation from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences; comments on Einstein; Nazi physicists. Visits to the U.S.; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Purdue University, 1936, and again in 1938; Ralph Wyckoff; desire to find employment in U.S.; run-in with Nazis, 1937; left for England; meetings with Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr. Impact of Rutherford's death. Life in Cambridge. Lectureship at University of Belfast, 1939; professor, 1944; life in Belfast; plight as German refugee in England. Portrait of Paul A. M. Dirac. Head of Physics Department at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1950. The Polycrystal Book Service. Appraisal of own scientific interests and accomplishments. Also prominently mentioned are: Henri Abraham, William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg, Maurice de Broglie, Doris Cattell, Marie Sklodowska Curie, George Darwin, Bergen Davis, Peter Josef William Debye, Eamon DeValera, Ehrenberg, Karl G. Emelius, Robley Dunglison Evans, Ella Ewald, Isidor Fankuchen, Feldkeller, Fleury, Garrido, Hermann Gr̲ing, E. P. Gross, Werner Heisenberg, A. Hettich, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Max Theodor Felix von Laue, Philipp Edward Anton Lenard, Charles Mauguin, Friedrich I. Mautner, Linus Pauling, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Max Planck, Pongs, Peter Pringsheim, Erich Regener, Friedrich Rinne, Rogers, Hubert W. Schleuning, Anne Schrd̲inger, Manne Siegbahn, Ernest Sommerfeld, Julius Stratton, Ernest Wagner, Gregor Wentzel; Acta Crystallographica, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, University of Cambridge Press, Cavendish Laboratory, Columbia University, Duke University, General Electric Company, Great Britain University Grants Committee, Handbuch der Physik, Dublin Institute for Advanced Physics, International Conference of Crystallographers (1946: London, England), International Union of Physics, Sociť ̌d'Optique, Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Universitt̃ Stuttgart, University of Cambridge, and University of Virginia.