Love and Physics: The Peierlses

by Mikhail Shifman

This special book is a compilation of essays on a remarkable but little-known story that lasted over half a century of world-renowned physicist, the late Sir Rudolf Peierls and his wife Genia Kannegiser. Peierls collected a lot of prestigious awards in his lifetime, and in the beginning of WW2, he and Otto Frisch were responsible for the inception of the Anglo-American nuclear program (1940). He was also one of the key contributors in the research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9813279907
• ISBN13: 9789813279902
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"