Herbert Fröehlich : a physicist ahead of his time
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Herbert Fröehlich : a physicist ahead of his time
（Springer biographies）
Springer, c2015
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This biography provides a stimulating and coherent blend of scientific and personal narratives describing the many achievements of the theoretical physicist Herbert Froehlich. For more than half a century, Froehlich was an internationally renowned and much respected figure who exerted a decisive influence, often as a 'man ahead of his time', in fields as diverse as meson theory and biology. Although best known for his contributions to the theory of dielectrics and superconductivity, he worked in many other fields, his most important legacy being the pioneering introduction quantum field-theoretical methods into condensed matter physics in 1952, which revolutionised the subsequent development of the subject. Gerard Hyland has written an absorbing and informative account, in which Herbert Froehlich's magnetic personality shines through.
Table of Contents
Chronology.- Prologue.- Early life.- Entrance to university and early academic career in Germany.- From Germany to Russia - via England.- From Russia to England, via Vienna.- Early days in Bristol - from metals to dielectrics.- Sojourn in Holland.- From dielectrics to meson theory.- Internment.- Return to Bristol.- From Bristol to Liverpool.- Theory of Dielectrics.- Large polaron theory.- Superconductivity.- Statistical mechanics and the connection between micro and macrophysics.- From theoretical physics to biology.- Superconductivity revisited.- Return to Particle Physics.- Epilogue.
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