Analogies in physics and life : a scientific autobiography / Richard M. Weiner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-394) and index.

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Noncommutative geometry is a novel approach which is opening up new possibilities for geometry from a mathematical viewpoint. It is also providing new tools for the investigation of quantum space-time in physics. Recent developments in string theory have supported the idea of quantum spaces, and have strongly stimulated the research in this field. This self-contained volume contains survey lectures and research articles which address these issues and related topics. The book is accessible to both researchers and graduate students beginning to study this subject.

Preface; Part I: THE WANDERING YEARS (1930-1974); Section I: Czernowitz, a City of People and Books that No Longer Exists (1930-1945); Chapter 1. Childhood; My Countries; My Languages; My Family; My Schools; Chapter 2. Politics -- Premonition of War; Making Ends Meet; Chapter 3. War -- The Ghetto; Section II: Post-War Romania; The Isomeric Shift; Persona Non Grata (1945-1969); Chapter 4. High School and University; Foc ̧sani 1945-1949; Bucharest; University; Theoretical Physics; Chapter 5. The Isomeric Shift on Spectral Lines; The Discovery of the Isomeric Shift

Finite Size Effects in Subatomic PhysicsNatural Line Width and the Limits of Optical Spectroscopy; Atomic Versus Nuclear Shells, the Pauli Exclusion Principle and the Nuclear Shell Model; The Isomeric Shift and the Shell Structure of Nuclei; Some Confusion of Terminology; The Mössbauer Effect; Dubna -- 1958; Chapter 6. Persona Non Grata; Applying for Emigration and Its Consequences; The Romanian Thaw; Interdiction to Leave for the West; Nuclear Recoil in Muonic Atoms; Chapter 7. Challenging Conventional Wisdom in Particle Physics; Anticipating Electro-Weak Unification?

Anticipating Supersymmetry? Exotic Particles -- Bosonic LeptonsAnticipating Grand Uni.ed Theories? Exotic Particles -- Strange Leptons; The Escape; Czechoslovakia; Chapter 8. Nazi-Communist Analogy; Section III: Geneva, Bonn; Statistical Concepts in High-Energy Physics (1969-1974); Chapter 9. CERN; From Vienna to Geneva; CERN; Uproar in the Media; Physics at CERN; Strong Interaction Phenomenology; Regge Poles and Duality; The Münchhausen Principle; Chapter 10. Statistical Concepts in High-Energy Physics; Phase Transitions; Section IV: Bonn, Bloomington (Indiana), London

Super.uidity of Hadronic Matter (1970-1974)Chapter 11. Bonn; Chapter 12. USA; Indiana University; A Letter from the White House; The Mesonic Cloud of the Nucleon and Super.uidity; Chapter 13. London, Imperial College; Trips on the Continent; Superfluidity and Symmetries; Supefluidity and Superconductivity: Analogies and Follow-ups; Related Developments; Superfluidity of Hadronic Matter in Retrospective; Statistical Concepts Applied to Weak Interactions; Part II: SETTLING YEARS (1974-PRESENT); Section V: Marburg; Hot Spots; Chapter 14. Professor at the Philipps University of Marburg

CitizenshipChapter 15. Hot Spots in "Elementary" Particles and in Nuclei; Propagation of Heat in Hadronic Matter; Hot Spots in Nuclei; Meeting Bethe; Section VI: Germany's Coping with the Past; The Hydrodynamical Analogy; Chapter 16. Rewriting History; The German A-bomb; Attempts to Justify the Past; Ignoring History; Misunderstanding the Past; Coping with the Communist Past of East Germany; Chapter 17. From Super.uids to Fluids; The Hydrodynamical Analogy Applied to Multiparticle Production in Strong Interactions; The Landau Model Rules the Waves in Nuclei as Well

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