Pais Abraham A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist`s Life in a Turbulent World 9780691600499

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Автор: Pais Abraham
Название: A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist`s Life in a Turbulent World
ISBN: 9780691600499
Издательство: Wiley
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Биографии деятелей науки, техники и медицины

Физика

ISBN-10: 069160049X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 552
Вес: 0.77 кг.
Дата издания: 14.07.2014
Серия: Princeton legacy library
Язык: English
Размер: 192 x 235 x 33
Подзаголовок: A physicist`s life in a turbulent world
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People like myself, who truly feel at home in several countries, are not strictly at home anywhere, writes Abraham Pais, one of the worlds leading theoretical physicists, near the beginning of this engrossing chronicle of his life on two continents. The author of an immensely popular biography of Einstein, Subtle Is the Lord, Pais writes engagingly for a general audience. His tale describes his period of hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland (he ended the war in a Gestapo prison) and his life in America, particularly at the newly organized Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, then directed by the brilliant and controversial physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Pais tells fascinating stories about Oppenheimer, Einstein, Bohr, Sakharov, Dirac, Heisenberg, and von Neumann, as well as about nonscientists like Chaim Weizmann, George Kennan, Erwin Panofsky, and Pablo Casals. His enthusiasm about science and life in general pervades a book that is partly a memoir, partly a travel commentary, and partly a history of science.

Paiss charming recollections of his years as a university student become somber with the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. He was presented with an unusual deadline for his graduate work: a German decree that July 14, 1941, would be the final date on which Dutch Jews could be granted a doctoral degree. Pais received the degree, only to be forced into hiding from the Nazis in 1943, practically next door to Anne Frank. After the war, he went to the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen to work with Niels Bohr. 1946 began his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he worked first as a Fellow and then as a Professor until his move to Rockefeller University in 1963. Combining his understanding of disparate social and political worlds, Pais comments just as insightfully on Oppenheimers ordeals during the McCarthy era as he does on his own and his European colleagues struggles during World War II.

Originally published in 1997.

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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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.

A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist`s Life in a Turbulent World, Pais Abraham