Weisskopf Victor 1908 2002 (6 results)
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Language: English
Published by Basic Books, New York, 1991
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Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.Steven Wolfe Books
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, one corner worn, cover price $24.95, very good dark red brown half-cloth, gray boards, slight skew from shelving at an angle, little sign of any used. broad black remainder stripe on bottom foredge. WEISSKOPF, VICTOR F. The joy of insight. Pas…sions of a physicist. New York: Basic Books, 1991, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiv, 336pp., . A portrait of the twentieth-century scientific community and a memoir of the scientist who was at the forefront of particle physics. - CONTENTS: Formative years in Vienna -- Becoming a theoretical physicist in Go ttingen -- Near the founders of quantum mechanics -- A worldview and a companion for life from Denmark -- Adventures with Pauli -- The growing threat of the Nazis -- Becoming an American -- Working on the bomb -- Return to teaching research, and politics -- Growing ties to Europe -- Leading CERN, a European International Laboratory -- Back to America -- Working with the Pope for peace -- Mozart, quantum mechanics, and a better world. 9780465036783 ISBN 0465036783.
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Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.Steven Wolfe Books
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Condition: Near Fine. Weisskopf, Victor F., 1908-2002. The joy of insight: passions of a physicist. New York: Basic Books, 1991, 2d printing, xiv, 336pp., very good dust-jacket, near fine dark red half-cloth. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series. 9780465036783 ISBN 0465036783.
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Published by New York: W.H. Freeman, 1989, 1989
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Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.Steven Wolfe Books
Contact seller5-star seller, Weisskopf, Victor F., 1908-2002. The privilege of being a physicist. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1989, x, 235pp., PAPERBACK, very good. Cover photograph of Weisskopf by Walter Bibikow. His second collection of essays. 9780716721062 ISBN 0716721066.
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Published by New York: W.H. Freeman, 1989, 1989
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Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.Steven Wolfe Books
Contact seller5-star seller, Weisskopf, Victor F., 1908-2002. The privilege of being a physicist. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1989, x, 235pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray half-cloth. Cover photograph of Weisskopf by Walter Bibikow, jacket design by Martha Rago. 9780716719823 ISBN 0716719827.
Published by Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1986, 1986
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Contact seller5-star sellerWeisskopf, Victor F., 1908-2002, (subject). Typed and handwritten letter to Victor Weisskopf and his wife, on letterhead of the Rektor of the university in Bonn, 1-page. Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1986, 1pp., typed letter on letterhead, with handwritten greetings and block letter handwritten signature of th…e Rektor: Max Huber, dated 1.VI.1986, page has been folded to fit an envelope and has a tear at the top right corner and a 4cm triangular tear along the right edge, no loss of text. Letter welcoming the Weisskopfs to this years meeting of the Order pour le mérite, being held in Bonn. The letter originally came along with a coffee-table book about the university, which may still be available for sale as a separate item, please inquire: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn / The University of Bonn. Redaktion: Werner Besch, Dorothea Carr, Richard Müller. Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1993, 2. Auflage, 247pp., beautiful large illustrated hardcover, 25x25cm. Parallel texts in German and English giving the history and structure of the university.
Published by MIT Press (1979), Cambridge [MA], 1979
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Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark/John Jackson Books, Svendborg, DenmarkExpatriate Bookshop of Denmark/John Jackson Books
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Add to basketCondition: Some minor rubbing. VG. 2nd Edition. orig.wrappers Some minor rubbing. VG. 21x13cm, xi,290 pp., PAPERBACK.
