Bird of Passage :: Recollections of a Physicist.

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 p...

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Main Author: Peierls, Rudolf
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary: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 grea
Item Description:Cover; Contents; Illustrations.
Physical Description:1 online resource (376 pages)
ISBN:9781400854615
140085461X
0691631743
9780691631745

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