Pais A Tale of Two Continents

A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6449-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 355, 552 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pais, Abraham

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Prologue
BOOK THE FIRST: EUROPE
1 Descent
2 Early Years
3 Bachelor's Degrees in Amsterdam
4 Of Music, Films, and Other Diversions
5 First Contacts with Zionism
6 Utrecht: M.Sc. and Ph.D.
7 War
8 Occupation of Holland
9 Sho'ah
10 Wartime Experiences of My Family and Me
11 War's Aftermath: A Last Lesson in Dutch History
12 My Final Months in Holland
13 Getting to Know Niels Bohr
BOOK THE SECOND: AMERICA
14 It Is Time to Speak of America
15 The State of the Union 1946: The U.S.,
Princeton, and the Institute for Advanced Study
16 Enter Einstein and Other Interesting New Acquaintances
17 In Which Oppenheimer Becomes Director and
I a Long-Term Member of the Institute
18 Oppenheimer: Glimpses of a Complex Man
19 My Career Unfolds
20 About Unexpected New Physics, Old Friends, and a Grand Tour
21 Of the Beginnings of Theoretical Particle
Physics, Some Baseball History, and Two Long Summer Journeys
22 Of Symmetry and My Longest Journey
23 Greenwich Village, American Citizenship, and the Oppenheimer Affair
24 Of My Best Work and a Year's Leave of
Absence. Death of Einstein
25 My First Trip to Russia and My First
Marriage
26 Enter Joshua. The 1950s, Concluded
27 Times of Great Change: The Early 1960s
28 Changing My Workplace from Princeton to New York
29 What Befell Me in the Late 1960s
30 The 1970s
31 A Career Change
32 My Final Years--So Far
33 Approaching the Millennium
Notes and References
Onomasticon