What Little I Remember

By Otto Robert Frisch

Book Overview

Otto Frisch took part in some of the most momentous developments in modern physics, notably the discovery of nuclear fission (a term which he coined). His work on the first atom bomb, which he saw explode in the desert 'like the light of a thousand suns', brought him into contact with figures such as Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman and the father of electronic computers, John von Neumann. He also encountered the physicists who had made the great discoveries of recent generations: Einstein, Rutherford and Niels Bohr. This characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century, illustrated with a series of fascinating photographs and witty sketches by the author himself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521222974
• ISBN13: 9780521222976
• Release Date: July 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Physics

Anecdotes about most of the physicists of the early 20th century by one of them. A very good read. It gets a bit technical.

The begining of the nuclear era.

"What little I remember" is the story of the nuclear era seen by O.R. Frisch, a physicist that explained the nuclear fission (with his aunt Lise Meitner, Hahn's collaborator). Frisch was involved in the discoveries of the quantum mechanics. He worked in Cambridge with Rutherford, in Copenhagen with Bohr and in Los Alamos with Oppenheimer. Book full of anecdotes about the men that made great the physics.

Delightful!

A delightful book!Gives a very candid insight into the traits and personal characteristics of some of the scientific greats of the 20th century.