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Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist
Rudolf Peierls
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Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; BGTA; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
684 g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691631745
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V9780691631745
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Reviews for Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist
[This] fascinating autobiography not only attests to [Peierls's] having been in on the most important scientific developments since the mid-1920s
in brief, the quantum revolution
but his lively account of the events of this period, and of its main actors, their contributions, and
with respect and sympathy
their quirks, provides a significant contribution to the scientific history of our time.
Bernard T. Feld, Bulletin ... Read more
in brief, the quantum revolution
but his lively account of the events of this period, and of its main actors, their contributions, and
with respect and sympathy
their quirks, provides a significant contribution to the scientific history of our time.
Bernard T. Feld, Bulletin ... Read more