The joy of discovery : great encounters along the way / Walter Thirring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thirring, Walter.

Standardized Title:

Lust am Forschen. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicists--Biography.

Physicists.

Thirring, Walter E., 1927-.

Thirring, Walter E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Walter Thirring is the last offspring of an Austrian family of scientists. In this moving narrative, he describes how he survived the Nazi occupation and became instrumental in reconstructing European science. Thirring is one of the last living physicists who worked on the greatest discoveries and with the greatest scientists of the 20th century. He recollects encounters with the old masters like Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Pauli and others as well as his collaborations with the present stars like Murray Gell-Mann and Elliott Lieb. The book presents the challenges faced when one of the

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Family Background/Childhood (1927-1938); Stolen Youth (1938-1945); Training and Education (1945-1959); Master Years (1959 and After); Return to Vienna (1971); What has Scientific Research Achieved?; Picture Credits; Index of Names; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613145093

9781283145091

128314509X

9789814322973

9814322970

OCLC:

740446085