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Klappentext First published in 1931, this autobiography of physicist Sir Oliver Lodge is a touching account of his life and work. Zusammenfassung Educated at a school where grammatical mistakes resulted in a beating! Sir Oliver Lodge became a gentle professor of physics at the University of Liverpool. He gave popular public lectures! pioneered early radio and X-ray technologies! and soon won fame as a broadcaster. This touching autobiography first appeared in 1931. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Ancestry and early days; 2. Schooldays; 3. Relation with other boys at school; 4. Education; 5. Influence of the Royal Institution; 6. Later education in London; 7. Reminiscences of Bedford College; 8. Scientific work and friends in London; 9. Personal retrospect; 10. Romance; 11. Influence of the British Association; 12. Reminiscences of Coopers Hill and assistants and popular lectures; 13. Liverpool; 14. Scientific work at Liverpool; 15. Scientific work at Liverpool (cont.); 16. Scientific work at Liverpool (cont.); 17. Electric waves and the beginnings of wireless; 18. Other friends; 19. Family life; 20. Holidays; 21. Side issues; 22. Early experiences in psychical research; 23. Psychical research; 24. Further psychic adventures, and psycho-physical phenomena; 25. Reminiscences of my years at the university of Birmingham; 26. Birmingham friendships and recollections; 27. Scientific retrospect; 28. Apologia pro vita mea; Index.
