Time reversal : an autobiography

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Time reversal : an autobiography

Anatole Abragam

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989

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De la physique avant toute chose

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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