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Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his l...

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The life of Niels Bohr spanned times of revolutionary change in science itself as well as its impact on society. Along with Albert Einstein, Bohr can be considered to be this century's major driving force behind the new philosophical and mathemati...

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Subtle is the Lord is recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein, written by an award-winning physicist turned historian who knew Einstein personally in the last years of his life. Pais illuminates the man through his sci...

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The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figure...

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The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figure...

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Talks about 14 scientists, all distinguished in their own right, such as Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli, Mitchell Feigenbaum, and John von Neumann. In each case, this book presents a blend of the personality and achievements of the scientist, assisted...

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The history of physics since the discovery of X-rays would be too simplistic a description of this book. Certainly it covers the historical period from the late nineteenth century to the present day, but the book attempts to relate not only what h...

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Traces Niels Bohr's progress from his well-to-do origins in late-19th-century Denmark to his central position in the world political scene, which was largely due to the development of nuclear weapons. Abraham Pais is the author of "Subtle is ...

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The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figure...

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was one of the founders of quantum theory. He is numbered alongside Newton, Maxwell and Einstein as one of the greatest physicists of all time. Together the lectures in this volume, originally presented on the occasion of...

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was one of the founders of quantum theory. He is numbered alongside Newton, Maxwell and Einstein as one of the greatest physicists of all time. Together the lectures in this volume, originally presented on the occasion of...

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"People like myself, who truly feel at home in several countries, are not strictly at home anywhere," writes Abraham Pais, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, near the beginning of this engrossing chronicle of his life on ...

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"People like myself, who truly feel at home in several countries, are not strictly at home anywhere," writes Abraham Pais, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, near the beginning of this engrossing chronicle of his life on ...

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Learn how to implement the reactive programming paradigm with C++ and build asynchronous and concurrent applications Key Features Efficiently exploit concurrency and parallelism in your programs Use the Functional Reactive programming model to str...

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Im September 1946 kam ich nach Princeton. Dort erfuhr ich aber, da Pauli inzwi schen nach Zrich abgereist war. Bohr kam noch im gleichen Monat nach Prince ton, um - wie ich - den Zweihundert jahr-Feiern beizuwohnen. Damals versumte ich meine erste...

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This second Series A volume of Werner Heisenberg''s Collected Works covers a period of about 15 years beginning with the early papers on quantum field theory in 1929/30 and ending with those on the scattering matrix (up to 1946). The reader will f...

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