Time Reversal
An Autobiography
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 31 August 1989
- ISBN 9780198539261
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages382 pages
- Size 243x164x27 mm
- Weight 755 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, 14 halftones 0
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Short description:
Anatole Abragam is a leading figure in modern physics, whose contributions to the field of nuclear magnetism have won him high distinctions.
Time Reversal is his lively and candid biography. Beginning with early childhood reminiscences of the Russia where he was born and his emigration to Paris in the 1920s, he leads the reader through his war years and spells at Oxford and Harvard, before concentrating on the field of science, about which he is so passionate and still very much a part.
The book is written in an anecdotal style, with many pen-portraits of the author's contemporaries - not all of which are flattering!
Long description:
Time Reversal is the autobiography of a leading figure in modern physics, Anatole Abragam. Born in Russia in 1915, he emigrated to Paris at the age of ten, where he proved to be a highly gifted pupil. But it was not until 1945, when he gained a place in a laboratory in Saclay, that his career in physics really began. His contributions to the field of nuclear magnetism subsequently won him high distinctions.
This book is a candid description of the author's life, times, and colleagues. It is replete with anecdotes and pen-portraits of his contemporaries, not all of which are flattering.
'Anatole Abragam ...is a story-teller and his book is a delight.'
'The book bubbles with people and stories, it describes a history of physics which one can admire and it is a marvellous anti-dote and lesson for the jet-lagged committee scientist.' Physics World
Table of Contents:
I: A Russian childhood; II: France, childhood, adolescence, youth; Mademoiselle Bertin; Les Cinq Glorieuses; A false start; Masters and examinations; In search of research; III: Man's estate; Armageddon or the gaieties of the squadron; The verdigris years; Second service; The three musketeers; Physicists' stories; A year of translation; Oxford; Between Oxford and Cambridge; America, America!; Accelerators and resonances; Nuclear magnetism and I; Looking back; Going up; Coll?ge de France; Director of physics; Nuclear magnetic order; East and West; The groves of academe; Epilogue
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