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Max von Laue
Intrepid and True: A Biography of the Physics Nobel Laureate
Taschenbuch von Jost Lemmerich
Sprache: Englisch

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This biography gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making. The discovery by Max von Laue in 1912 of interference effects demonstrated the wave-like nature of X-rays and the atomic lattice structure of crystals. This major advance for research on solids earned him the Nobel Prize two years later, the ultimate acclaim as an exceptional theoretician. As an early supporter of Einstein¿s relativity theory, he published fundamental papers on light scattering as well as on matter waves and superconductivity. Laue may be counted among the few persons of influence in Germany who ¿ as Einstein put it ¿ managed to ¿stay morally upright¿ under Nazism. It is thus surprising that this is the first extensive biography of this famous scientist.
Jost Lemmerich could hardly have been better equipped to describe German physics and physicists in the 1920s. His copiously illustrated historical account is based as much on scientific material as on private correspondence, creating a fascinating and convincingly detailed portrait.
This biography gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making. The discovery by Max von Laue in 1912 of interference effects demonstrated the wave-like nature of X-rays and the atomic lattice structure of crystals. This major advance for research on solids earned him the Nobel Prize two years later, the ultimate acclaim as an exceptional theoretician. As an early supporter of Einstein¿s relativity theory, he published fundamental papers on light scattering as well as on matter waves and superconductivity. Laue may be counted among the few persons of influence in Germany who ¿ as Einstein put it ¿ managed to ¿stay morally upright¿ under Nazism. It is thus surprising that this is the first extensive biography of this famous scientist.
Jost Lemmerich could hardly have been better equipped to describe German physics and physicists in the 1920s. His copiously illustrated historical account is based as much on scientific material as on private correspondence, creating a fascinating and convincingly detailed portrait.
Über den Autor

Dr. rer.nat. h.c. Jost Lemmerich (1929-2018), a trained chemist and physicist and retired European patent expert, dedicated his leisure time over many decades to the history of science, organizing major exhibitions and preparing important collections such as Lise Meitner's papers at Churchill College. This author of ten books, including a biography of James Franck, Lemmerich received numerous academic awards as well as Germany's Distinguished Service Cross.

Ann M. Hentschel is a freelance translator specialized in the history of science. She has translated over thirty books, including a number of volumes in the series The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and more recently: Photons - The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta by Klaus Hentschel (Springer 2018).

Zusammenfassung

A unique scientific biography of an important German physicist and science policymaker

Tells the story of an influential anti-Nazi German Nobel laureate in interwar and postwar Berlin

Gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword.- Introduction.- Childhood and youth.- Studies in physics.- Doctoral dissertation and first scientific research.- Private lecturer at the University of Munich.- Professorship in Zurich.- Professorship in Frankfurt am Main, WW I, Nobel Prize in physics.- Berlin - general and special theories of relativity.- Physics and politics in Berlin during the 1930s.- Physics and politics during WW II.- War's end and Farm Hall.- Back in Germany.- Back in Berlin - in West Berlin.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Springer Biographies
Inhalt: xxi
413 S.
93 s/w Illustr.
4 farbige Illustr.
413 p. 97 illus.
4 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783030947019
ISBN-10: 3030947017
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lemmerich, Jost
Übersetzung: Hentschel, Ann M.
Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
Hersteller: Springer Nature Switzerland
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Springer Biographies
Maße: 235 x 155 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jost Lemmerich
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,657 kg
Artikel-ID: 126815253
Über den Autor

Dr. rer.nat. h.c. Jost Lemmerich (1929-2018), a trained chemist and physicist and retired European patent expert, dedicated his leisure time over many decades to the history of science, organizing major exhibitions and preparing important collections such as Lise Meitner's papers at Churchill College. This author of ten books, including a biography of James Franck, Lemmerich received numerous academic awards as well as Germany's Distinguished Service Cross.

Ann M. Hentschel is a freelance translator specialized in the history of science. She has translated over thirty books, including a number of volumes in the series The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein and more recently: Photons - The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta by Klaus Hentschel (Springer 2018).

Zusammenfassung

A unique scientific biography of an important German physicist and science policymaker

Tells the story of an influential anti-Nazi German Nobel laureate in interwar and postwar Berlin

Gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword.- Introduction.- Childhood and youth.- Studies in physics.- Doctoral dissertation and first scientific research.- Private lecturer at the University of Munich.- Professorship in Zurich.- Professorship in Frankfurt am Main, WW I, Nobel Prize in physics.- Berlin - general and special theories of relativity.- Physics and politics in Berlin during the 1930s.- Physics and politics during WW II.- War's end and Farm Hall.- Back in Germany.- Back in Berlin - in West Berlin.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Springer Biographies
Inhalt: xxi
413 S.
93 s/w Illustr.
4 farbige Illustr.
413 p. 97 illus.
4 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783030947019
ISBN-10: 3030947017
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lemmerich, Jost
Übersetzung: Hentschel, Ann M.
Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
Hersteller: Springer Nature Switzerland
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Springer Biographies
Maße: 235 x 155 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jost Lemmerich
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,657 kg
Artikel-ID: 126815253
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