Bird of passage : recollections of a physicist / Rudolf Peierls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.

Physicists.

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

Peierls, Rudolf E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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," 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, "some of the great characters" in this field.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Origin and Background

2. The Student Years

3. Assistant to Pauli

4. Rockefeller Fellow

5. Growing Roots in England

6. A Provincial Chair

7. War

8. Manhattan District

9. Settled in Birmingham

10. Teaching

11. Travelling and Other Sidelines

12. Problems of Nuclear Weapons

13. Oxford

14. "Security" Troubles

15. Retirement

Epilogue

Brief Chronology

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780691631745

0691631743

9781400854615

140085461X

OCLC:

1013955104