
Time Reversal
An Autobiography
Anatole Abragam(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 31. August 1989
Book
Hardback
382 pages
978-0-19-853926-1 (ISBN)
Description
Time Reversal is the autobiography of a leading figure in modern physics, Anatole Abragam. Born in Russia in 1915, he emigrated to Paris at the age of ten, where he proved to be a highly gifted pupil. But it was not until 1945, when he gained a place in a laboratory in Saclay, that his career in physics really began. His contributions to the field of nuclear magnetism subsequently won him high distinctions.
This book is a candid description of the author's life, times, and colleagues. It is replete with anecdotes and pen-portraits of his contemporaries, not all of which are flattering.
This book is a candid description of the author's life, times, and colleagues. It is replete with anecdotes and pen-portraits of his contemporaries, not all of which are flattering.
Reviews / Votes
'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
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
frontispiece, 14 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
755 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-853926-1 (9780198539261)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
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; College de France; Director of physics; Nuclear magnetic order; East and West; The groves of academe; Epilogue