A Physicists Labour In War And Peace
By E W Kellermann
Length8h 40m
About this audiobook
This informative book covers the pre war period to the 1990s spanning the author s experience of the rise of Nazism on the continent, his research and his involvement in the planning of Science and Higher Education in Britain. He gives a wry commentary on education and science in Britain, and describes his role in pressing for adequate funding for science, especially during the Thatcher era. His research in Edinburgh with the future Nobel Laureate Max Born, one of the giants of Theoretical Physics, led to a breakthrough in solidstate physics. In Manchester he worked with Patrick Blackett, also a future Nobel Laureate, measuring Extensive Air Showers . These are sprays of particles, which fall on the earth generated by nuclear particles from the cosmos. Later in Leeds he was one of the initiators of the National British Air Shower Experiment. He writes about some of the famous scientists he has met, and also of his disappointments which are often the fate of a working scientist. This is not a rounded autobiography. Much of the book is concerned with Kellermann s research in solid state and cosmic ray physics and his interaction with outstanding physicists of the time, notably his work with Karl Przibram in Vienna and later with Max Born, Patrick Blackett and E C Stoner, and his meetings with C F Powell in Great Britain. There is also an account of his meeting with Max Planck, his discussions with the later atom spy Klaus Fuchs and other notable scientists of the period. It is concerned also with British science policy and Kellermann s commitment to promote support for science by British governments of the day. But a life in physics spanning the second half of the twentieth century is also likely to be a life deeply marked by warfare, antiSemitism, and disruption. These intelligently written memoirs (Professor Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds) offer perceptive assessments of contemporary events and of many of the scientists and politicians Kellermann encountered. The Leitmotiv during Kellermannss later years was his research on cosmic ray extensive air showers. The nonspecialist will find a clear account of how these showers, caused by enormously energetic particles from the cosmos are clues to its understanding, an account leading right up to the present state of the art.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 8, 2011
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1cover: Title and Copyright
19Cloudchamber photograph of an Extensive Air Shower
2Chapter 1 - Nazis Change Our Lives
20Chapter 10 - Planning The Future Of Science
3Chapter 2 - Studies in Vienna amid Political Danger
21Chapter 11 - Cosmic Rays - A Peaceful Study Of Nuclear Physics
4Chapter 3 - Permission To Land In Britain
22Chapter 12 - Blackett’s Laboratory
5Chapter 4 – Theoretical Physics in Britain, A New Discipline – The Contribution of Refugees
23Chapter 13 - Extensive Air Showers - Detecting the Highest Energies
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6Chapter 5 - New Ideas and a Breakthrough in Solid State Physics
24Chapter 14 - Manchester Detects New Sub-Nuclear Particles
7Chapter 6 - Imminent War? How Klaus Fuchs Saw It
25Chapter 15 - Moving On
8Chapter 7 - The Internment Of Genuine Refugees
26Chapter 16 - A Cosmic Ray Laboratory In Leeds
9Chapter 8 - Shipped To Canada, But Democracy Lives
27Chapter 17 - Cosmic Ray Physicists Meet in Mexico
10Chapter 9 - A Small University College in War Time
28Chapter 18 - The British Large Air Shower Experiment
11Professor Karl Przibram
29Chapter 19 - The Highest Energies An End To The Shower Spectrum?
12Professor Max Born, FRS
30Chapter 20 - A New Particle? - Hopes Raised and Dashed
13Sir Edmond Whittaker, FRS
31Chapter 21 - A Place for Religion
14Professor Lord Blackett, FRS
32Chapter 22 - British Science Quo Vadis?
15Professor E C Stoner, FRS
33Epilogue
16Professor Cecil Powell, FRS
34Acknowledgements and another CV
17Pair Creation. Cloud chamber photograph by Blackett and Occhialini.
35About the Author
18Diagram of Extensive Air Shower
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