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What Little I Remember by Otto Robert Frisch (1980, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521280109
ISBN-139780521280105
eBay Product ID (ePID)4464034
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWhat Little I Remember
SubjectPhysics / General, Science & Technology
Publication Year1980
TypeTextbook
AuthorOtto Robert Frisch
Subject AreaScience, Biography & Autobiography
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.1 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN78-018096
Reviews'In writing a charming, light-hearted cameo of his life and times as a scientist, Professor Frisch has revealed more about science than many authors with greater pretensions. This is a book that deserves to be read, and will be enjoyed, by a wide audience.' The Economist, 'Despite his modest title, what Frisch 'manages to remember' is quite impressive. He loved to tell stories and his many vignettes of his associates … include nearly every outstanding physicist who worked in nuclear physics.' Science, 'This is a happy book, from which the author's personality and his enjoyment of physics, of music, of life, emerges clearly. It is also a portrait of the pre-War world of physics, of days of small numbers and small apparatus, of times when a physicist could think of an ingenious experiment today and set it up tomorrow.' Nature, 'Despite his modest title, what Frisch 'manages to remember' is quite impressive. He loved to tell stories and his many vignettes of his associates ... include nearly every outstanding physicist who worked in nuclear physics.' Science, 'This is a happy book, from which the author's personality and his enjoyment of physics, of music, of life, emerges clearly. It is also a portrait of the pre-War world of physics, of days of small numbers and small apparatus, of times when a physicist could think of an ingenious experiment today and set it up tomorrow.'Nature
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal530/.092/4
Table Of ContentPreface; 1. Vienna 1904-1927; 2. Atoms; 3. Berlin 1927-1930; 4. Hamburg 1930-1933; 5. Nuclei; 6. London 1933-1934; 7. Denmark 1934-1939; 8. Denmark 1934-1939; 9. Energy from the nuclei; 10. Birmingham 1939-1940; 11. Liverpool 1940-1943; 12. Los Alamos 1943-1945; 13. Los Alamos 1943-1945; 14. Research resumed; 15. Return to England; 16. Cambridge 1947- ... ; Further reading; Acknowledgements; Index.
SynopsisThis characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century., Otto Frisch took part in some of the most momentous developments in modern physics, notably the discovery of nuclear fission (a term which he coined). His work on the first atom bomb, which he saw explode in the desert 'like the light of a thousand suns', brought him into contact with figures such as Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman and the father of electronic computers, John von Neumann. He also encountered the physicists who had made the great discoveries of recent generations: Einstein, Rutherford and Niels Bohr. This characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century, illustrated with a series of fascinating photographs and witty sketches by the author himself., This book of reminiscences sheds a personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century., Otto Frisch took part in some of the most exciting developments of modern physics, including the discovery of nuclear fission -- he coined that term -- which led to atomic power and atomic weapons. Working on those weapons during World War II he met the scientist and organizer, Robert Oppenheimer, and the passionate maverick, Edward Teller, as well as the mathematical genius, John von Neumann, from whom he first heard about electronic computers, which were just coming into being. He was still a child when Einstein rose to fame and when Bohr devised his atomic model, based on Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus; but later he met all those great scientists (and many others) and indeed worked for five years in Copenhagen under Bohr, whom he regarded as the deepest thinker among them. By vividly describing our growing knowledge of matter and energy he creates the background for his (mostly) affectionate pen portraits, enlivened by entertaining anecdotes, of the many scientists he met. He saw the first atom bomb explode 'like the light of a thousand suns', and later during his thirty years in Cambridge he saw the birth and growth of radioastronomy, and the unravelling of the double helix of heredity. Carefully chosen pictures -- some drawn by the author himself -- help in making the book enjoyable to scientists and non-scientists alike.
LC Classification NumberQC16.F75
