Frederick Seitz

On the Frontier

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Market: General physics community, especially those in condensed matter and crystallography, as well as historians of science. This revealing autobiography by a prominent physicist and distinguished member of the physics community spans the past 60 years. From the people he knew to the events hewitnessed, Frederick Seitz's engrossing book covers key developments in physics since the 1930s and includes many anecdotes and never before published photographs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Inst. of Physics / American Institute of Physics / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-56396-197-7
• 1997.
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9781563961977
• ISBN-10: 1563961970
• Artikelnr.: 09184996

Inhaltsangabe

1. Early Years.
2. Elementary School.
3. High School.
4. Undergraduate college.
5. Princeton Years.
6. University of Rochester.
7. General Electric Laboratory.
8. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh World War II.
9. Applied research 1939-1945.
10. Post-war Carnegie Institute of Technology.
11. The University of Illinois, 1949-1965.
12. The NATO Science Office, 1959-1960.
13. The National Academy of Sciences, 1962 -1969.
14. The Rockefeller University, 1968-1978.
15. 1978 and Beyond.
16. Reflections.