Forks in the road : a life in physics / Stanley Deser.
Forks in the road : a life in physics / Stanley Deser.
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Publisher
Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2022]
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G 2021/1918
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 155 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Early days : rootless cosmopolitan -- America -- College days -- Graduate school -- The institute for advanced study -- The Bohr Institute -- America again -- Boston -- adulthood -- Academia : (UN)steady state -- Innocents abroad -- A big year -- Oxford et al. -- The eighties -- The iron curtain I -...
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Publisher
Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2022]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2022]
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Summary
"A scientific autobiography by Stanley Deser. Stanley Deser is a preeminent theoretical physicist who made monumental contributions to general relativity, quantum field theory and high energy physics; he is a co-creator of supergravity. This is his personal story, intended for a broad, scientifically curious audience, with emphasis on the historic...
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Forks in the road : a life in physics / Stanley Deser.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2022
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G 2021/1918
Record Identifier
74VKaaj0kD3g
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaaj0kD3g
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ISBN
9811234183
9789811234187
DDC
530.092
MMS ID
991024424013102626
