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Nevill Mott : reminiscences and appreciations /
A tribute to the life and work of Nobel Laureate, Sir Nevill Mott. Over 80 friends and associates have contributed their memoirs to this book, full of anecdotes and appreciations for a colossus of modern physics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Bristol, PA :
Taylor & Francis,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; List of contributors; Chronology of Nevill Mott's life and work; A happy childhood; Cambridge and Manchester 1924 1933; Memories of Nevill and his Bristol Team; Bristol: first years; Early days; A miraculous escape; Nevill: family friend; Bristol 1938: memories of a research student; Fort Halstead: superintendent of theoretical research in armaments; My professional association with Sir Nevill Mott; Some reminiscences; Memories from 1945 to 1954; The Bristol period: 1945 to 1954; Recollections; Some personal reminiscences
- Postwar days at BristolMaster, colleague and friend of our laboratory; Nevill in Bristol during the early fifties; My brother-in-law; My uncle; Memories; with gratitude; Recollections of Bristol 1951 52; A brief reminiscence; Mott and the cosmic radiation; Reminiscences of Bristol; Mind without frontiers; A brilliant shaft of light; Mott family life; Preventing nuclear war; The Oxford Research Group; Memories of the Professor's secretary; Magister; How he saved the Laboratory of Molecular Biology; A student's view; Can you hear me in the back?; Excursions into politics
- Tripos reform and inventionMetal physics at the Cavendish: a personal appreciation; Selected encounters; Moving on; Cavendish Professor; A Jewish connection; NFM and PCS; Gifts to physics; A reminiscence and appreciation; Applied science; Energetic kindness; Starting a university; Student rebellion and how NEC got a grant; Open learning; Teaching science; My memories; Editor, chairman and president: three roles in one company; Reminiscences; A happy warrior; Some personal recollections; Working with Nevill Mott; Reminiscences; Democritus of Elysium; Defects in chalcogenide glasses
- Glass, raspberries and Cader IdrisMemories of a graduate student; The Mott transition; A sovereign friend; A man for all seasons; Encountering Sir Nevill; The enquiring chemist; Sharing a whisky; A man and a scientist; Non-crystalline solids: order in disorder; Nobel prize news in Marburg; Swedish involvements; My life touched by Nevill; Conquering a new frontier; Mott's room; My research with Sir Nevill; Personal memories; Reminiscences; Growing up with Sir Nevill; Fond remembrances; Science and social life with Nevill in Grenoble; Beyond the Mott transition
- High-temperature superconductivityMy brother-in-law; A scientist who came to believe; Science and religion; Searching for religious truths; Nevill's funeral address