Bird of Passage Recollections of a Physicist By: Rudolf Peierls Publisher: Princeton University Press Print ISBN: 9780691631745, 0691631743 eText ISBN: 9781400854615, 140085461X Copyright year: 2014 Format: PDF Available from $ 64.00 USD SKU: 9781400854615 Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was indeed a bird of passage, whose career of fifty-five years took him to leading centers of physics--including Munich, Leipzig, Zurich, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, and J. Robert Oppenheimer's Los Alamos. Peierls was a major participant in the revolutionary development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 1930s, working with some of the pioneers and, as he puts it, some of the great characters in this field. Originally published in 1985. 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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. Additional ISBNs 9780691631745, 9780691602202, 9780691083902, 9780691024165, 0691631743, 0691602204, 0691083908, 0691024162, 9780691631745, 9780691602202, 9780691083902, 0691631743, 0691602204, 0691083908, 9780691024165 SKU: 9780691631745 Ebooks here: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Bird-of-Passage
