Love and physics : the Peierlses / [edited by] Mikhail Shifman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shifman, Mikhail A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995.

Peierls, Rudolf E.

Peierls, Eugenia, 1908-1986.

Peierls, Eugenia.

Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.

Physicists.

Nuclear physics.

History.

Great Britain.

Nuclear physics--History--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 457 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Peierlses

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2019]

Summary:

This special book is a compilation of essays on a remarkable but little-known story that lasted over half a century of world-renown physicist, the late Sir Rudolf Peierls and his wife Cenia Kannegiser. Peierl's collected a lot of prestigious awards in his lifetime, and in the beginning of WW2, he and Otta Frisch were responsible for the inception of the Anglo-American nuclear program (1940). He was also one of the key contributors in the research at Los Alamos during those turbulent times. Most previous books on Peierls have focused on his scientific research, while the contents for this volume sheds light on his private life in dramatic circumstances. The extensive contributions were not only gathered from the relatives of Genia, the couple's daughters, Landau's students, and from Russian and English archives, but they also include the unique perspectives of the author who is a professional theoretical physicist and is also fluent in Russian, his native language. So, this fascinating story of love, friendship and physics between Rudolf and Genia is being told for the first time from a surprisingly new angle through correspondence between Genia and Rudolf, memoirs and other documents, interesting and informal experts from Peierls' private "diary" covering the years 1979-1994 that will take the reader on a journey through communism, world war, the trials and tribulations of the loving couple with distinctly very different personalities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Rudolf Peierls's last interview One Man and His Bomb, conducted by Brian Cathcart, 1995 p. 29

2 Love and Physics. The Beginning p. 39

3 Jazz Band p. 49

4 A Romance Taking Shape in Letters p. 61

5 Flashback p. 111

6 Marriage and Trepidation. March 1931 p. 143

7 Flashback 2 p. 155

Part 2 War and Peace p. 173

8 Glimpses p. 175

1940: Selected Correspondence p. 176

Los Alamos p. 185

1961: Genia's Letter to New Scientist p. 199

1969: Rudolf Peierls' AIP Interview p. 203

Eugenia Peierls' Security Questionnaire, Los Alamos, 1944 p. 205

Memories of Genia p. 207

1989-1993: Selected Correspondence p. 218

9 Betrayal p. 227

10 Tragedy of That Generation p. 255

11 On the Other Side of the Iron Curtain p. 271

12 Rudolf Peierls: The Lesson of the Fuchs Case p. 303

13 The Peierls FBI File p. 311

Part 3 Sir Rudolf Peierls, His Diary p. 323

14 Sir Rudolf Peierls by Sabine Lee p. 325

15 Farewell p. 355

16 Rudolf Peierls' Diary p. 359

17 Peierls, Heisenberg and Farm Hall Transcripts p. 429

18 Rudolf Peierls and Nuclear Responsibility p. 439.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789813279902

9813279907

9789811201387

9811201382

OCLC:

1084620158