What Little I Remember

This characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century.

Otto Robert Frisch (Author)

9780521280105, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 September 1980

240 pages
21.6 x 14.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.343 kg

'This is a happy book, from which the author's personality and his enjoyment of physics, of music, of life, emerges clearly. It is also a portrait of the pre-War world of physics, of days of small numbers and small apparatus, of times when a physicist could think of an ingenious experiment today and set it up tomorrow.' Nature

Otto Frisch took part in some of the most momentous developments in modern physics, notably the discovery of nuclear fission (a term which he coined). His work on the first atom bomb, which he saw explode in the desert 'like the light of a thousand suns', brought him into contact with figures such as Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman and the father of electronic computers, John von Neumann. He also encountered the physicists who had made the great discoveries of recent generations: Einstein, Rutherford and Niels Bohr. This characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century, illustrated with a series of fascinating photographs and witty sketches by the author himself.

Preface
1. Vienna 1904–1927
2. Atoms
3. Berlin 1927–1930
4. Hamburg 1930–1933
5. Nuclei
6. London 1933–1934
7. Denmark 1934–1939
8. Denmark 1934–1939
9. Energy from the nuclei
10. Birmingham 1939–1940
11. Liverpool 1940–1943
12. Los Alamos 1943–1945
13. Los Alamos 1943–1945
14. Research resumed
15. Return to England
16. Cambridge 1947– …
Further reading
Acknowledgements
Index.

Subject Areas: Popular science [PDZ]