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What Little I Remember

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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.

Anecdotes about most of the physicists of the early 20th century by one of them. A very good read. It gets a bit technical.

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.

A delightful book!

Gives a very candid insight into the traits and personal characteristics of some of the scientific greats of the 20th century.