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Bird of Passage : Recollections of a Physicist

Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was indeed a bird of passage, "" whose career of fifty-five years took him to leading centers of p...

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Autor principal: Peierls, Rudolf
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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