Memoirs of a Physicist in the Atomic Age

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The author, Wlater Elsasser, was intimately acquainted with some of the great names in physics in the twenties and thirties, the period when nuclear physics began. In the pages of this book will be found the very personal and fascinating accounts of his meetings with Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Pauli, with the Curies and Joliot, with Einstein, Milikan and Oppenheimer, as well as others who contributed to what rightly has been called the Golden Age of Atomic Science.