Bird of Passage : : Recollections of a Physicist / / Rudolf Peierls.
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-...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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