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A tale of two continents : a physicist's life in a turbulent world / Abraham Pais.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QC16.P24 A3 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000.
- Pais, Abraham.
- Physics--History.
- Physics.
- Physicists--United States--Biography.
- Physicists.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 511 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- The author of an immensely popular biography of Einstein, Subtle Is the Lord, Pais writes engagingly for a general audience. His "tale" describes his period of hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland (although he ended the war in a Gestapo prison) and his life in America, particularly at the newly organized Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, then directed by the brilliant and controversial physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Pais tells fascinating stories about Oppenheimer, Einstein, Bohr, Sakharov, Dirac, Heisenberg, and von Neumann, as well as about nonscientists like Chaim Weizmann, George Kennan, Erwin Panofsky, and Pablo Casals. His enthusiasm about science and life in general pervades a book that is partly a memoir, partly a travel commentary, and partly a history of science.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-504) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691012431
- OCLC:
- 35762662
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