A Life of Erwin Schroedinger
Published on 26. August 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
364 pages
978-0-521-46934-0 (ISBN)
Description
Erwin Schroedinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. He was best known for the discovery of wave mechanics, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics, but his most influential book What Is Life? served to attract some of his brightest scientific contemporaries into molecular biology.
Reviews / Votes
'The best book available today on the life and work of Schroedinger.' The Times Higher Education Supplement 'It is an attempt to analyze a soul, and in that respect it surpasses even The Double Helix by James Watson in its examination of the most visceral drives of a great scientist.' The New York Times Book Review 'A bestseller among scientific biographies.' ScienceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
24 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 135 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-46934-0 (9780521469340)
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Content
Introduction; 1. Family childhood, and youth; 2. University of Vienna; 3. Schroedinger at war; 4. From Vienna to Zurich; 5. Zurich; 6. Discovery of wave mechanics; 7. Berlin; 8. Exile in Oxford; 9. Graz; 10. Wartime Dublin; 11. Postwar Dublin; 12. Home to Vienna.