A Tale of Two Continents : : A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World / / Abraham Pais.
"People like myself, who truly feel at home in several countries, are not strictly at home anywhere," writes Abraham Pais, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, near the beginning of this engrossing chronicle of his life on two continents. The author of an immensely popul...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (552 p.) :; 24 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- BOOK THE FIRST: EUROPE
- 1. Descent
- 2. Early Years
- 3. Bachelor's Degrees in Amsterdam
- 4. Of Music, Films, and Other Diversions
- 5. First Contacts with Zionism
- 6. Utrecht: M.Sc. and Ph.D.
- 7. War
- 8. Occupation of Holland
- 9. Sho'ah
- 10. Wartime Experiences of My Family and Me
- 11. War's Aftermath: A Last Lesson in Dutch History
- 12. My Final Months in Holland
- 13. Getting to Know Niels Bohr
- BOOK THE SECOND: AMERICA
- 14. It Is Time to Speak of America
- 15. The State of the Union 1946: The U.S., Princeton, and the Institute for Advanced Study
- 16. Enter Einstein and Other Interesting New Acquaintances
- 17. In Which Oppenheimer Becomes Director and I a Long-Term Member of the Institute
- 18. Oppenheimer: Glimpses of a Complex Man
- 19. My Career Unfolds
- 20. About Unexpected New Physics, Old Friends, and a Grand Tour
- 21. Of the Beginnings of Theoretical Particle Physics, Some Baseball History, and Two Long Summer Journeys
- 22. Of Symmetry and My Longest Journey
- 23. Greenwich Village, American Citizenship, and the Oppenheimer Affair
- 24. Of My Best Work and a Year's Leave of Absence. Death of Einstein
- 25. My First Trip to Russia and My First Marriage
- 26. Enter Joshua. The 1950s, Concluded
- 27. Times of Great Change: The Early 1960s
- 28. Changing My Workplace from Princeton to New York
- 29. What Befell Me in the Late 1960s
- 30. The 1970s
- 31. A Career Change
- 32. My Final Years—So Far
- 33. Approaching the Millennium
- Notes and References
- Onomastico