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The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966)

The physicist Friedrich Houtermans (1903-1966) was an essential promoter and proponent of the development of physics in Berne. He introduced a number of activities in the field of elementary particles, with a special focus on the physics of cosmic rays, and important contributions in applied physics...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Amaldi, Edoardo (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Braccini, Saverio (Editor ), Ereditato, Antonio (Editor ), Scampoli, Paola (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Colección:SpringerBriefs in Physics,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preamble
  • Friedrich's birth and family background
  • His youth in Vienna
  • Student in Göttingen
  • Assistant in Berlin
  • Fritz's first marriage
  • Life in Berlin
  • Emigration to U.K. and U.S.S.R
  • Professor in Kharkov.-The beginning of the great trials
  • The years of prison
  • An overview of the situation in central Europe
  • More about Fritz and Konstantin
  • A few other physicists' political troubles
  • Finally out of prison!
  • Shaken by worldwide storms. Fritz's second family
  • An outline of the early development of applied nuclear energy in Germany
  • From Berlin to Ronneburg
  • In Göttingen again
  • Houtermans' third family
  • Fritz's fourth family. His departure
  • Houtermans' scientific work and influence in Bern
  • Why we remember him
  • List of Publications by F. G. Houtermans
  • Bibliography.