Obsessed by a Dream : : The Physicist Rolf Widerøe - a Giant in the History of Accelerators.

• Superior document: Springer Biographies Series
• Author: Sørheim, Aashild.
• TeilnehmendeR: Stewart, Frank.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; {copy}2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Springer Biographies Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 A Comfortable Home -- At the Same Time, Somewhere Else -- A Family of Entrepreneurs -- The Eldest Son Would Study -- Ham and Aquavit -- Spent 30 Øre on Steel Wire -- King Oscar ll Comes to Visit -- The Wealthy Family from Romsdal -- Hiding Grandpa in the Oven -- King Solomon's Mines -- Into the Atomic Age -- Electrical Engineering -- Student Social Life -- An Idea on the Side … -- … Set Aside for Now -- 'It Won't Work!' -- It Still Won't Work! -- Needs Must -- Headhunted -- Keeping an Eye on the Competition -- Aeronautics and Airshows -- The World's Best Relays -- Onwards and Upwards -- The Brothers Take Off -- Dance of Love -- The Fishermen Set Their Clocks by Us -- Grasp the Opportunities -- Headhunted Two -- The USA Takes up the Thread -- Big Science -- A Sponsorship Campaign -- Headhunted Three -- Doctor of Engineering -- I Was Right! -- Hot on the Trail -- Following the Trail -- Surely not … ? -- 2 The World Awaits -- Sound, Stench and Knitted Mitts -- The Secret Room in the Attic -- BBC Becomes ABB -- A New Ford and a Free Hand -- Bergen V. Oslo -- The Radium Hospital Changes Direction -- In Rolf's Own Words -- French Chateaux and Norwegian Summers -- Plus-Fours and Dreams -- Dancing Feet -- The Asklepitron -- None Better? -- After the Betatron Came the Synchrotron -- Something in the Air -- Courageous Italians -- Maybe the Answer Is in the Wastepaper Basket -- Radiotherapy Machines Worldwide -- Not a Teacher -- The Last Emperor -- Celebrities -- 100 Betatrons and 200 Patents -- More Irons in the Fire -- Because I Wanted to -- American Enthusiasm -- This Is How We'll Do It -- America Strikes Back -- A Workhorse -- The Rest of the Alphabet -- Meeting with the Great and Famous -- The Big Questions -- Doris and Petra -- Twenty Years Teaching -- The Art of Compromise.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- My Uncle Wasn't Boring -- A Surprising Uncle -- A Brother-in Law Who Is Both Social and Antisocial -- Curiosity Takes New Directions -- Two Pretty Dresses -- Doctor Honoris Causa -- Come and Sit Down, My Boy -- New Triumphs -- More Prizes and Honours -- Nevertheless -- Around the World -- Lacking Only the Nobel Prize -- Just in Time -- The Same Enthusiasm -- The Patent He Didn't Talk About -- The First Love -- The Impossible -- 3 The Dark Chapter -- The Visitation at Work -- Why Rolf? -- A Few Days Later -- The Industry Speeds up -- Contacts -- German Contacts -- And His Answer Is … -- What About the Family? -- Into the Labyrinth -- His Own Boss -- A Strong Team -- Fringe Benefits -- Everyday Life at the Factory -- The Writing in the Sky -- Working from Home -- A Tug-of-War Over the Contract -- Three Phases -- Death Rays -- How It Began -- Schiebold on the Carpet -- Interrupted by the Air-Raid Sirens -- Another Setback for the Death-Ray Project -- More Betatrons -- Time up! -- Heads Roll -- A Visit to Viggo -- Industry on the Offensive -- Hollnack Recruits a Courier -- Siemens Joins the Race -- War on All Fronts -- Medical Use -- The Betatron Must Be Moved to Safety -- Driven by Events -- The Unveiling -- Quite Different Problems -- The World Goes on -- No Passport and Little Money -- 4 Treason Case Number 3418 -- Reported -- Arrested -- Remanded in Custody -- A Defence Lawyer -- Charged -- Interviewed -- Released -- An Expert Committee Is Set up -- The Committee's Report -- The Committee's Conclusion -- More Interviews -- The Main Charge Is Dropped -- No Prosecution -- Forelegg Agreed -- The Points that Were Scored Out -- The Penalty -- Over-reaction -- An Intelligence Officer Visits -- Biased -- Serious Omissions -- Illogical -- What Happened? -- The Passport Question -- The Radium Hospital Intervenes.

The Official in Charge Intervenes -- The Media Intervene -- The Experts Intervene -- No Mitigating Circumstances -- Blackened and Scarred -- But What If … ? -- Insulting and Demeaning -- Five Physicists -- A Guilty Conscience -- Let Bygones Be Bygones -- Are Facts the Same as Truth? -- 5 But There Was More … -- Dinner with Hitler -- The Death-Ray Weapon Becomes a Radiotherapy Machine -- The End of the Double Game -- 'Kellinghusen's Mussolini' -- Contact with Rolf Is Renewed -- To Whom It May Concern -- Serving the Scientific Interests in the World -- Who Is Doing What -- Still a 'Treuhänder' -- Hoping They Say Yes -- Top Secret -- The Link to Rolf -- In Eminent Company -- Hectic Peace -- Delicate Manoeuvring -- His Interest -- His 'Credo' -- His Role as 'Treuhänder' -- His Background -- His Assessment of Schiebold's Ray-Gun -- His Main Achievement-Rolf -- His View of Rolf's Motives -- His Break with the Luftwaffe -- His New Offensive -- His Colleagues and Equipment -- His Agreements Concerning Rolf -- Status -- The Griffin -- War Is War -- The Oslo Report -- Cryptic and Conspiratorial -- When I Was Ready I Was Released -- Colleagues Meet -- The Atomic Age Comes to Norway -- Hard Facts About Alsos -- Operation Epsilon -- The Big Failure -- Captain Randers' Report -- The Interview in the Prison -- The Rest of the Alsos Folder -- A Status Project-The 200 Mega-Electronvolt Machine -- Hush-Hush -- The Internal Report -- Formalities -- Staffing -- Classification -- The Forward Plan -- Hollnack's Report -- But then … -- Cyclotrons and Betatrons -- Betatrons Become Political -- Bombs and Rockets -- Nuclear Research -- Accelerator Research -- Hitler Despised Physics -- Scherrer the Spy -- Top Nazi Officials Involved with Research and Physics -- Good Scientific Contacts -- Three Key People in the Widerøe Group.

German Physicists with Various Connections to the Uranium Club and to Rolf's Project -- Nuclear Physicists Abroad Whose Work Influenced the German Physicists -- Brown Boveri -- Philips-Müller -- General Electric -- Westinghouse -- AEG -- Siemens -- Rich. Seifert &amp -- Co -- What Became of Them -- The Spider -- 6 Why? -- How? -- Nazi or Not? -- Nevertheless? -- Arild, Oldest Son -- Overheated -- Tried to Understand -- Exciting Conflict -- 'The Mad Scientist' -- At the Right Time -- The Scene Is Set -- Voluntarily or 'voluntarily' -- As Waloschek Saw It -- As the Family Saw It -- 'Transported There' -- Interpreting the Biography -- Bitter? -- Name and Shame -- Membership or not -- Viggo was the Hero -- A Handful of Norwegian Physicists -- A Nobel Prize, Him? -- Behind the Scenes -- In the Wrong Place -- … And in the Right Place -- 'Something' -- The Sons and the War -- Why, Why? -- The Dream -- 7 Postscript: The Letter from His Brother -- The Family Knew Nothing -- In All Directions -- Difficult? -- Two Daughters' Accounts of Their Father and Their Uncle -- Two Sons' Accounts of Their Father and Their Uncle -- Advocate de Besche -- With Inhibitions Down -- The Children Are in Bed -- High Expectations -- - And a Dream -- Inside and Outside His Bubble -- Youthful Enthusiasm -- Solar Energy and Acupuncture -- Always 22 Years Old -- Index.