Bird Of Passage: Recollections Of A Physicist
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1985
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Xii, 350 Pp. Green Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine In Fine Dust Jacket, Not Price-Clipped. Former Owner's Name; Very Faint Foxing Spots To Top Of Page Black (Outside Of Book, Not On Pages). Exceptionally Well Written Memoir Of Decades Of Personal Meetings With Physicists Of The Highest Caliber, By A Reporter Of The First Quality. Who Always Describes Interesting Details.
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- Title
- Bird Of Passage: Recollections Of A Physicist
- Author
- Peierls, Rudolf
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691083908
- ISBN 13
- 9780691083902
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Physics
Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was indeed a bird of passage," whose career of fifty-five years took him to leading centers of physics--including Munich, Leipzig, Zurich, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, and J. Robert Oppenheimer's Los Alamos. Peierls was a major participant in the revolutionary development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 1930s, working with some of the pioneers and, as he puts it, "some of the great characters" in this field.
Originally published in 1985.
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Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This personal, anecdotal, and often humorous autobiography reads like a history of 20th-century physics, but with the added warmth of a very good novel. Peierls's personal contact with most of the giants of modern physics, including Bethe, Weisskopf, Bohr, Fermi, and Sommerfeld, provides a unique glimpse of events that have shaped much of our modern world. A distinguished physicist himself, Peierls spent most of his career in leading centers of physics in Europe, England, and America, including work with Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the first atomic bomb. Strongly recommended for most libraries. E. Robert Paul, History of Science Prog., Dickinson Coll., Carlisle, Pa.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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