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Zusatztext '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 Klappentext 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! Zusammenfassung This autobiography by a leading figure in modern physics describes his life, times and colleagues. Filled with anecdotes and pen-portraits of his contemporaries, the book also describes Abragam's contributions to the field of nuclear magnetism, which have won him high distinctions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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; Collège de France; Director of physics; Nuclear magnetic order; East and West; The groves of academe; Epilogue
Summary
This autobiography by a leading figure in modern physics describes his life, times and colleagues. Filled with anecdotes and pen-portraits of his contemporaries, the book also describes Abragam's contributions to the field of nuclear magnetism, which have won him high distinctions.
