A TALE OF TWO CONTINENTS: A physicist's life in a turbulent world - Couverture souple

Pais, Abraham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198505434 ISBN 13 : 9780198505433

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1999

Synopsis

"People like myself, who truly feel at home in several countries, are not strictly at ho e anywhere", writes Abraham Pais, one of the world's leading theoretic physicists, near the beginning of this engrossing chronicle of his life on two continents. The author of a highly acclaimed biography of Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, Pais writes engagingly for a general audience. He movingly describes his period of hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland (he ended the war in a Gestapo prison) before taking stock of his life in America, particularly at the newly organized Institut for Advanced Study in Princeton, then directed by the brilliant and controversial physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Pais knew and worked with many of the greats of twentieth-century physics, and he relates many fascinating stories about Oppenheimer, Einstein, Bohr, Sakharov, Dirac, Heisenberg, and von Neumann, as well as about non-scientists like Chaim Weizmann, George Kenman, Erwin Panofsky, and Pablo Casals. His enthusiasm about science and life in general pervades a book that is both a memoir and a history of science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198505434
• ISBN 13: 9780198505433
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 527
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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