Taking the back off the watch: a personal memoir
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CONTENTS
1 SCHOOL YEARS IN TROUBLED TIMES 1
FAMILY BACKGROUND 1
SCHOOLING IN BERLIN 4
ESCAPE FROM BERLIN 5
SCHOOL IN SWITZERLAND 6
A FAIRY TALE 11
2 WARTIME STUDENT DAYS 13
ADMISSION TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 13
INTERNMENT 15
BACK TO CAMBRIDGE 17
3 WARTIME WORK FOR THE BRITISH NAVY 19
WAITING FOR THE SECURITY CLEARANCE 19
THE ADMIRALTY SIGNAL ESTABLISHMENT 22
TANTALLON 24
EXCURSIONS TO SNOWDON 27
A SPY STORY 28
THE SNORKEL WAR 28
ULTRASOUND 32
PREPARATIONS FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE 34
THE GERMANS' SURRENDER 39
TRAVELS AS WING COMMANDER IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 4 0
4 RETURN TO CAMBRIDGE: THE CITADEL O F LEARNING 47
THEORY OF HEARING 49
THE RATIO CLUB 59
THE EEL AND THE HELIX 60
THE DOUBLE BOOM O F SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT 62
COSMOLOGICAL THEORY 64
THE STEADY STATE UNIVERSE 69
DEBATE WITH THE CAMBRIDGE RADIO ASTRONOMERS 75
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XVI C O N T E N T S
ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM 79
ELECTION OF CHANCELLOR O F THE UNIVERSITY O F CAMBRIDGE 81
ELECTION OF CHANCELLOR O F THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 83
SPINNING DUST IN SPACE 87
5 APPOINTMENT AT THE ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY 91
AXIS O F ROTATION OF THE EARTH 92
THE SURFACE OF THE MOON 96
ECLIPSE EXPEDITION 99
APPOINTMENT O F R. R. WOOLLEY AS ASTRONOMER ROYAL 100
6 MOVE TO AMERICA 103
PALOMAR OBSERVATORY AND THE CRAB NEBULA 103
A GENIUS WITH PUZZLES 109
THE ARROW OF TIME 110
THE SOLVAY CONFERENCE 115
7 MOVE TO CORNELL 117
SETTING UP THE CENTER FOR RADIOPHYSICS AND SPACE RESEARCH 117
THE GREAT RADIO TELESCOPE AT ARECIBO 118
THE ROTATION OF THE PLANET MERCURY: A CAUTIONARY TALE 126
8 THE PULSAR ERA 131
9 NASA: THE LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP 145
GETTING TO KNOW THE MOON 146
THE VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELTS 146
WASHINGTON COMMITTEE WORK 149
APOLLO 151
THE LUNAR STEREO CAMERA 155
SPACE SUITS 159
MEASUREMENTS OF DUST GRAINS 163
THE SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS 164
THE SCIENTIFIC CONCLUSIONS OF THE APOLLO FLIGHTS 166
SPACE MANUFACTURING 167
THE MARS DELUSION 168
NASA POLICY IN THE 1990S 169
10 ORIGIN O F PETROLEUM ON EARTH 171
THE DEBATE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM 171
ORIGIN O F THE CARBON ON THE EARTH 173
ASSOCIATION O F HYDROCARBONS WITH HELIUM 175
MICROBIAL LIFE 176
THE DEEP, HOT BIOSPHERE 178
THE ORIGIN O F DIAMONDS 180
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CONTENTS XVII
HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL PATTERNS OF HYDROCARBON FIELDS 181
HOW DO LIQUIDS OR GASES MAKE THEIR WAY UP THROUGH THE CRUST? 181
THE SEARCH FOR HYDROCARBONS IN THE BEDROCK O F SWEDEN 183
THE SECOND HOLE 191
11 EARTHQUAKES 195
THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 198
OTHER HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES 199
TSUNAMIS, EARTHQUAKE SPOTS, AND MUD VOLCANOES 200
FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR MASSIVE GAS EMISSIONS 202
ARE EARTHQUAKES CAUSED BY GAS ERUPTIONS? 204
CAN EARTHQUAKES BE PREDICTED? 205
DO THE LARGE EMISSIONS OF A LIGHT AND FLAMMABLE GAS POSE A HAZARD FOR
AIRCRAFT? 208
BIBLIOGRAPHY 213
12 UNFINISHED BUSINESS 215
THE STRANGE CASE O F IO 217
PULSARS 220
THE SWEDISH DRILLING EXPERIMENT 221
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 223
A PERSONAL POSTSCRIPT 225
INDEX 227 |
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