Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Vienna 1904–1927; 2. Atoms; 3. Berlin 1927–1930; 4. Hamburg 1930–1933; 5. Nuclei; 6. London 1933–1934; 7. Denmark 1934–1939; 8. Denmark 1934–1939; 9. Energy from the nuclei; 10. Birmingham 1939–1940; 11. Liverpool 1940–1943; 12. Los Alamos 1943–1945; 13. Los Alamos 1943–1945; 14. Research resumed; 15. Return to England; 16. Cambridge 1947– … ; Further reading; Acknowledgements; Index.

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This characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century.

Reviews

'In writing a charming, light-hearted cameo of his life and times as a scientist, Professor Frisch has revealed more about science than many authors with greater pretensions. This is a book that deserves to be read, and will be enjoyed, by a wide audience.' The Economist 'Despite his modest title, what Frisch 'manages to remember' is quite impressive. He loved to tell stories and his many vignettes of his associates ... include nearly every outstanding physicist who worked in nuclear physics.' Science 'This is a happy book, from which the author's personality and his enjoyment of physics, of music, of life, emerges clearly. It is also a portrait of the pre-War world of physics, of days of small numbers and small apparatus, of times when a physicist could think of an ingenious experiment today and set it up tomorrow.' Nature