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Sir Rudolf Peierls
Rudolf Ernst Peierls
Sabine Lee
其他書名
Selected Private and Scientific Correspondence
出版
World Scientific
, 2007
主題
Mathematics / Geometry / Algebraic
Science / History
Science / Physics / General
ISBN
9812790985
9789812790989
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2WJhDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This edition of the private and scientific correspondence of Sir Rudolf Peierls gives a unique insight into the life and work of one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century. Rudolf Peierls'' scientific work contributed to the early developments in quantum mechanics, and he is well known and much appreciated for his contributions to various disciplines, including solid state physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics. As an enthusiastic and devoted teacher, he passed on his knowledge and understanding and inspired the work of collaborators and students alike. As an effective administrator he was responsible, almost single-handedly, for the establishment of an outstanding successful centre of theoretical physics in Birmingham, and later contributed much to theoretical physics in Oxford. A meticulous collector of correspondence, Sir Rudolf left a fascinating collection of letters, in some cases spanning more than seven decades. This collection includes correspondence with his parents, his wife, the Russian-born physicist Genia Kannegieser, life-long friends such as Hans Bethe, and many great physicists, including Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Lev Landau, and George Placzek, to name but a few. This first volume, which covers the years 1922 to 1945, contains much of the early family correspondence, letters exchanged between Rudolf and Genia Peierls before and after their marriage in 1931, correspondence relating to early developments in quantum physics, and interesting material relating to the development of nuclear weapons. The extensive apparatus provides an invaluable background which allows the reader to put the presented documents into their multi-faceted social, political and scientific context. This book is also available as a set with Sir Rudolf Peierls: Selected Private and Scientific Correspondence, Volume 2 . Foreword. Foreword (69k). Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Lehr- und Wanderjahre: The Traveling Apprentices of the Second Quantum Generation 1922-1930 (491k). Contents: .: A Tennis Player OCo Not a Golfer; Lehr- und Wanderjahre: The Traveling Apprentices of the Second Quantum Generation 1922-1930; Russia: A Scientific Adventure and a Romance; Zurich OCo Rome OCo Cambridge OCo Manchester OCo Birmingham: The Journey Towards Academic Success; 1937-1939: A Provincial Chair and Non-Provincial Science; 1940-45: War. Readership: Scientists, historians, academics and students."