Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist


Hardcover
Paperback
- Price:
- $77.00/拢65.00
- ISBN:
- Published:
- Jul 14, 2014
- Copyright:
- 1985
- Pages:
- 376
- Size:
- 6 x 9 in.
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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,鈥 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, 鈥渟ome of the great characters鈥 in this field.
Originally published in 1985.
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