TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peierls,Rudolf
TI  - Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400854615
AV  - QC16.P375 A32 2014 
U1  - 530.0924530/.092/4 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abdus Salam
KW  - Abraham Pais
KW  - Anschluss
KW  - Bertrand Russell
KW  - Bohr family
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Code word (figure of speech)
KW  - Education
KW  - Edward Teller
KW  - Erudition
KW  - Eugene Wigner
KW  - Fellow of the Royal Society
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
KW  - G. I. Taylor
KW  - George Gamow
KW  - George Kistiakowsky
KW  - George Placzek
KW  - Habilitation
KW  - Hans Bethe
KW  - Harold Urey
KW  - His Family
KW  - Internment
KW  - Iris Murdoch
KW  - John Cockcroft
KW  - Klaus Fuchs
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Lecturer
KW  - Lise Meitner
KW  - Lunch
KW  - MAJORANA
KW  - MAUD Committee
KW  - Marie Curie
KW  - Martial law in Poland
KW  - Max Born
KW  - Meal
KW  - Michael Polanyi
KW  - Mrs
KW  - New Thought
KW  - Nicholas Kurti
KW  - Niels Bohr
KW  - Nobel Prize
KW  - Nuclear weapon
KW  - Old quantum theory
KW  - On War
KW  - Otto Robert Frisch
KW  - Patrick Blackett
KW  - Paul Langevin
KW  - Peter Mazur
KW  - Pfennig
KW  - Physicist
KW  - Pure mathematics
KW  - Quantum mechanics
KW  - Result
KW  - Richard Feynman
KW  - Salary
KW  - Science News
KW  - Scientist
KW  - Solvay Conference
KW  - Supervisor
KW  - The New Accelerator
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Regime (novel)
KW  - The Wedding Party
KW  - Theoretical physics
KW  - To the Wedding
KW  - Tube Alloys
KW  - V
KW  - Walther Bothe
KW  - Wilhelm Wien
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400854615
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ER  -