Bird of Passage : Recollections of a Physicist /
Peierls, Rudolf
Bird of Passage : Recollections of a Physicist / Rudolf Peierls. - Course Book - 1 online resource (376 p.) - Princeton Legacy Library ; 55 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Origin and Background -- 2. The Student Years -- 3. Assistant to Pauli -- 4. Rockefeller Fellow -- 5. Growing Roots in England -- 6. A Provincial Chair -- 7. War -- 8. Manhattan District -- 9. Settled in Birmingham -- 10. Teaching -- 11. Travelling and Other Sidelines -- 12. Problems of Nuclear Weapons -- 13. Oxford -- 14. "Security" Troubles -- 15. Retirement -- Epilogue -- Brief Chronology -- Index
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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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781400854615
10.1515/9781400854615 doi
Physicists--Biography--Great Britain.
Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Abdus Salam. Abraham Pais. Anschluss. Bertrand Russell. Bohr family. Calculation. Code word (figure of speech). Education. Edward Teller. Erudition. Eugene Wigner. Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow. Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell. G. I. Taylor. George Gamow. George Kistiakowsky. George Placzek. Habilitation. Hans Bethe. Harold Urey. His Family. Internment. Iris Murdoch. John Cockcroft. Klaus Fuchs. Lecture. Lecturer. Lise Meitner. Lunch. MAJORANA. MAUD Committee. Marie Curie. Martial law in Poland. Max Born. Meal. Michael Polanyi. Mrs. New Thought. Nicholas Kurti. Niels Bohr. Nobel Prize. Nuclear weapon. Old quantum theory. On War. Otto Robert Frisch. Patrick Blackett. Paul Langevin. Peter Mazur. Pfennig. Physicist. Pure mathematics. Quantum mechanics. Result. Richard Feynman. Salary. Science News. Scientist. Solvay Conference. Supervisor. The New Accelerator. The Other Hand. The Regime (novel). The Wedding Party. Theoretical physics. To the Wedding. Tube Alloys. V. Walther Bothe. Wilhelm Wien.
QC16.P375 A32 2014
530.0924 530/.092/4
Bird of Passage : Recollections of a Physicist / Rudolf Peierls. - Course Book - 1 online resource (376 p.) - Princeton Legacy Library ; 55 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Origin and Background -- 2. The Student Years -- 3. Assistant to Pauli -- 4. Rockefeller Fellow -- 5. Growing Roots in England -- 6. A Provincial Chair -- 7. War -- 8. Manhattan District -- 9. Settled in Birmingham -- 10. Teaching -- 11. Travelling and Other Sidelines -- 12. Problems of Nuclear Weapons -- 13. Oxford -- 14. "Security" Troubles -- 15. Retirement -- Epilogue -- Brief Chronology -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781400854615
10.1515/9781400854615 doi
Physicists--Biography--Great Britain.
Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Abdus Salam. Abraham Pais. Anschluss. Bertrand Russell. Bohr family. Calculation. Code word (figure of speech). Education. Edward Teller. Erudition. Eugene Wigner. Fellow of the Royal Society. Fellow. Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell. G. I. Taylor. George Gamow. George Kistiakowsky. George Placzek. Habilitation. Hans Bethe. Harold Urey. His Family. Internment. Iris Murdoch. John Cockcroft. Klaus Fuchs. Lecture. Lecturer. Lise Meitner. Lunch. MAJORANA. MAUD Committee. Marie Curie. Martial law in Poland. Max Born. Meal. Michael Polanyi. Mrs. New Thought. Nicholas Kurti. Niels Bohr. Nobel Prize. Nuclear weapon. Old quantum theory. On War. Otto Robert Frisch. Patrick Blackett. Paul Langevin. Peter Mazur. Pfennig. Physicist. Pure mathematics. Quantum mechanics. Result. Richard Feynman. Salary. Science News. Scientist. Solvay Conference. Supervisor. The New Accelerator. The Other Hand. The Regime (novel). The Wedding Party. Theoretical physics. To the Wedding. Tube Alloys. V. Walther Bothe. Wilhelm Wien.
QC16.P375 A32 2014
530.0924 530/.092/4