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"A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein's expedition to Mount Everest, cherished encounters with the fathers of Quantum Mechanics (Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrodinger), to a jovial collaborat...
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World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein's expedition to Mount Everest, cherished encounters with the fathers of Quantum Mechanics (Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrodinger), to a jovial collaboration with Freeman Dyson on the Orion spaceship project. This essay collection is a door into several pieces of scientific explorations as well as the celebrated life of Jeremy Bernstein, a physicist, professor and phenomenal writer. Readers will enjoy this book as both an autobiography and a popular science reading"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 140 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references. |
| ISBN: |
9789811245695 981124569X 9789811243493 9811243492 |
| Index Number: | QC16 |
| CLC: | K837.126.11 |
| Call Number: | K837.126.11/B531 |
| Contents: | Reflections on Project Orion -- The whisperer -- Genia and Rudi -- The Mercator projection -- A trick of memory -- 239 Central Park West -- Lise Meitner : the discovery of nuclear fission -- The merely good -- Wien Wien nur du Allein -- The kinder transport -- W.H. Auden et al. -- Entanglement -- Feynman -- Leonhard Euler and the atomic bomb -- Murder in the academy -- A life -- Proust -- A travesty -- Fact and fiction -- Max -- The life it brought. |