By Edoardo Amaldi (auth.), Saverio Braccini, Antonio Ereditato, Paola Scampoli (eds.)
The physicist Friedrich Houtermans (1903-1966) used to be a vital promoter and proponent of the advance of physics in Berne. He brought a few actions within the box of straightforward debris, with a unique specialize in the physics of cosmic rays, and critical contributions in utilized physics.
This biography of Houtermans used to be written through Edoardo Amaldi and was once virtually accomplished prior to his unforeseen loss of life in 1989. The editors have merely corrected typographical blunders and feature brought in simple terms minimum textual content alterations for you to guard the unique content material. they also have gathered and incorporated unpublished photos and stories from Houtermans’ scholars and collaborators. The textual content is the results of a radical and extensive learn on Houtermans’ existence and personality conducted via Edoardo Amaldi. it really is greater than a biography, because the determine of Houtermans is determined in a old viewpoint of Europe among the 2 global wars. This publication should be of serious curiosity to historians and historians of science.
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In particular food supplies were very scarce. e. directly from farmers, eggs, chicken or something else, to add to the small rations. The bachelors, among the foreign physicists lived all together in a single large apartment house. One of them in turn, almost every day, did not work, but went around looking for extra food for all of them. In practice only one satisfactory meal per day was possible for almost all grown-up people. This unsatisfactory food supply was mainly due to the failure of the ‘‘integral collectivization’’ of agriculture.
Landau, G. Placzek: ‘‘Struktur der Unverschobenen Streulinie’’, Phys. Zeit. Soviet union 5 (1934) 172-173. 3. The Institute of Physics of the University of Rome was located in the building, constructed between 1877-1880, in Via Panisperna 89A, and remained there until autumn 1936, when it was transferred to a new building at the Città Universitaria. All or almost all the work of Fermi and his collaborators and pupils was carried on in the building of Via Panisperna. 4. See, for example: (a) Roy A.
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