Time reversal : an autobiography
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Bibliographic Information
Time reversal : an autobiography
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
- Other Title
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De la physique avant toute chose
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
DC19:530/Ab812070154074
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Translation of: De la physique avant toute chose
Description and Table of Contents
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.
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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