"I am the smartest man I know" : a Nobel laureate's difficult journey / Ivar Giaever, Applied BioPhy...
"I am the smartest man I know" : a Nobel laureate's difficult journey / Ivar Giaever, Applied BioPhy...
"I am the smartest man I know" : a Nobel laureate's difficult journey / Ivar Giaever, Applied BioPhysics, Inc., USA.
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2017]
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G 2017/625
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English
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vi, 272 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Growing up in Norway -- The German occupation -- Attending university (NTH) -- Adulthood in Norway -- Emigration to Canada -- Emigration to the USA -- Norwegian vacation -- GE research laboratory -- Friends at laboratory -- My trip to Moskva -- More research -- Sabbatical leave in England -- Back in...
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2017]
Date Published
[2017]
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"A unique individual with a fascinating life story, Ivar Giaever is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Experimental Physics in 1973. In his own words, Giaever relates an absorbing tale of how important luck and good fortune have been in shaping his life. He narrates the story of an ordinary childhood in Norway and an unremarkable undergraduate...
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"I am the smartest man I know" : a Nobel laureate's difficult journey / Ivar Giaever, Applied BioPhysics, Inc., USA.
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G 2017/625
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74VKV7ORa0yM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV7ORa0yM
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9813109181 paperback ; alkaline paper
9789813109179 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9813109173 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9789813109186 paperback ; alkaline paper
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530.092 B
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991024064910902626
