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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Hyland, Gerard
Hyland, G. J.
Titre(s) : Herbert Fröhlich [Texte électronique] : A Physicist Ahead of His Time
Titre d'ensemble : Herbert Fröhlich / Hyland, G. J.
Édition : Online-Ausg
Publication : Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015
Description matérielle : Online-Ressource (1 online resource (283 p.))
Collection : Springer Biographies
EBL-Schweitzer
Note(s) : Description based upon print version of record
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chronology; 1 Prologue; References; 2 Early Life
in Germany; 2.1 Childhood and Schooling; 2.2 Entrance to University and Early Academic
Career in Germany; Photo Gallery; References; 3 Moving on: The Years of Exile; 3.1
From Germany to Russia, via England; 3.2 From Russia to England, via Vienna; Appendices;
Report in Nature on the conference `The Metallic State', held in Bristol, 1935; Schrödinger's
Letter of Letter of Support for Fröhlich; Photo Gallery; References; 4 Life in Bristol;
4.1 From Metals to Dielectrics: First Theory of Dielectric Breakdown ; 4.2 Sojourn
in Holland4.3 Dielectrics Revisited, and the First ERA Reports; 4.4 Development and
Applications of Vector Meson Theory; 4.5 Internment; 4.6 Return to Bristol; 4.7 Dielectric
Breakdown Revisited: The Birth of the `Hot' Electron Concept; Appendices; Mott's Letter
to Fröhlich in Holland concerning work for the ERA; `Wrong Interactions'--a Playlet
by N. Kemmer; Fragment of an Unpublished Manuscript with Heitler on Chain Reactions
(c.1939/40); Photo Gallery; References; 5 The Liverpool Years: The First Professor
of Theoretical Physics; 5.1 From Bristol to Liverpool ; 5.2 Theory of Dielectrics5.3
Polaron Theory; 5.4 Theory of Superconductivity, the Introduction of Quantum Field
Theory into Solid-State Physics, and Marriage; 5.5 Return to Particle Physics; A.0.
Appendices; A.0.0 Feynman's Letter to Fröhlich concerning the Polaron, and Fröhlich's
Reply; A.0.0 An Appreciative Letter from Japan; A.0. Photo Gallery; References; 6
The Liverpool Years: From Professor to Professor Emeritus; 6.1 Superconductivity Revisited;
6.2 Statistical Mechanics and the Connection Between Micro and Macrophysics; 6.3 From
Theoretical Physics to Biology ; 6.3.1 Historical Preliminaries6.3.2 A Simple Non-linear
Model for a Dynamic Coherent Excitation; 6.3.3 A New Long-Range Frequency-Selective
Attraction; 6.3.4 A Static Coherent Excitation; 6.3.5 The Experimental Situation,
and the Problem of Replication; 6.3.6 A Synthesis of the Two Kinds of Coherent Excitation:
A Model for Electrical Brain-wave Activity; 6.3.7 Some General Considerations; 6.3.8
Cancer; 6.4 Unfinished Business; A.0. Appendices; A.0.0 Fröhlich's 1948 Review of
Von Laue's Theorie der Superleitung ; A.0.0 An Unpublished Manuscript of 1986 on a
Bilocal Extension of the Dirac Bilinear CovariantsA.0. Photo Gallery; References;
7 Epilogue; A.0. Photo Gallery; References; Complete Bibliography of H. Fröhlich;
AuthorIndex; SubjectIndex ; This biography provides a stimulating and coherent blend
of scientific and personal narratives describing the many achievements of the theoretical
physicist Herbert Fröhlich. For more than half a century, Fröhlich was an internationally
renowned and much respected figure who exerted a decisive influence, often as a 'man
ahead of his time', in fields as diverse as meson theory and biology. Although best
known for his contributions to the theory of dielectrics and superconductivity, he
worked in many other fields, his most important legacy being the pioneering introduction
quantum field-theoret
Sujet(s) : Sciences -- Histoire
Physique
Indice(s) Dewey :
509 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Histoire ; 530.01 (23e éd.) = Physique - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319148519
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44678658d
Notice n° :
FRBNF44678658
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