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.
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'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
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This book of reminiscences sheds a personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century.
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The begining of the nuclear era.,
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"What little I remember" is the story of the nuclear era seen by O.R. Frisch, a physicist that explained the nuclear fission (with his aunt Lise Meitner, Hahn's collaborator). Frisch was involved in the discoveries of the quantum mechanics. He worked in Cambridge with Rutherford, in Copenhagen with Bohr and in Los Alamos with Oppenheimer. Book full of anecdotes about the men that made great the physics.
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Anecdotes about most of the physicists of the early 20th century by one of them. A very good read. It gets a bit technical.
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A Moderately Interesting Autobiography,
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Otto Frisch was one of the two physicists to first explain uranium fission (the other was his aunt, Lisa Meitner), and the person who almost singlehandedly got the British atom bomb project started. This book gives a brief overview of his life and work, but lacks details. It's worth reading if you're very interested in the history of nuclear weapons and power, or of quantum physics in the early twentieth century, but there's not a lot to be learned here.
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My paternal grandfather, Moriz Frisch, was a Polish Jew from Galicia who settled in Vienna and started a printing shop in 1877. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electric repulsion, artificial radioactivity, alpha rays, uranium nucleus, slow neutrons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Niels Bohr, Los Alamos, Lise Meitner, James Franck, New York, Cavendish Laboratory, Enrico Fermi, Marie Curie, Otto Stern, Albert Einstein, First World War, Fritz Houtermans, George Gamov, Gustav Hertz, Louis Slotin, Max Born, Max Planck, New Mexico, Robert Cockburn, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Big House, Birkbeck College, Edgar Wallace, Hans Bethe, Harry Daghlian New!
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My paternal grandfather, Moriz Frisch, was a Polish Jew from Galicia who settled in Vienna and started a printing shop in 1877. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electric repulsion, artificial radioactivity, alpha rays, uranium nucleus, slow neutrons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Niels Bohr, Los Alamos, Lise Meitner, James Franck, New York, Cavendish Laboratory, Enrico Fermi, Marie Curie, Otto Stern, Albert Einstein, First World War, Fritz Houtermans, George Gamov, Gustav Hertz, Louis Slotin, Max Born, Max Planck, New Mexico, Robert Cockburn, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Big House, Birkbeck College, Edgar Wallace, Hans Bethe, Harry Daghlian New!
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- Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (Plume) by Banesh Hoffman in Back Matter
- The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on page 152
- The nature of matter (The World of science library) by Otto Robert Frisch in Back Matter
- Space and Time in the Modern Universe by P. C. W. Davies in Back Matter
- J.S. Bach / Inventionen by Johann Sebastian Bach on page 33
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- Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Centennial Books) by Ruth Lewin Sime in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Secret Weapons of World War II by William B. Breuer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb by Thomas Powers in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Secret Weapons of World War II by William B. Breuer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fallout by Jim Ottaviani in Back Matter
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