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 pf 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 experiement today and set it up tomorrow.' Nature