A passion for discovery /
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Author / Creator: | Freund, Peter G. O. (Peter George Oliver), 1936- |
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Imprint: | New Jersey : World Scientific, 2007. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11170202 |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Einstein Once Removed 1
- 2 Heisenberg's Turn 7
- 3 A True Aristocrat 14
- 4 The Conscience of Physics 20
- 5 The Wizard of Pasadena 26
- 6 Back to Maupertuis 32
- 7 The Language of God 37
- 8 Emmy Noether and the Urge for the Abstract 43
- 9 Oswald Teichmuller and Nazi Science 51
- 10 Spontaneous Breakdown of Human Decency 58
- 11 Scientists in Politics 61
- 12 Jews in Science. The Backlash 69
- 13 Stalin and the Quantum 77
- 14 Mister Sakharov Goes to Kiev 82
- 15 Mr. Yang also Goes to Kiev 87
- 16 The Stone Age and the Fermi Era 94
- 17 The Serene Sensei 99
- 18 Oppenheimer, Hero or Antihero? 105
- 19 Viennese Physics, Then and Now 110
- 20 The Importance of a Sense of Humor 123
- 21 The Russian Style 129
- 22 Chandra, Passionate Cambridge Gentleman 134
- 23 On and Off the Map: Romanian Mathematics 143
- 24 Du cote de chez Telegdi, the Experimental Side 151
- 25 Leader of the Pack 160
- 26 New Dimensions 165
- 27 A Brief History of Space 173
- 28 The Coming Age 182
- Epilogue: The Goal and the Means 184
- Sources, Comments and Some More Stories Masquerading as Comments 192.