Obsessed by a Dream The Physicist Rolf Widerøe – a Giant in the History of Accelerators

This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known. The first of Widerøe's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physi...

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Autor principal: Sørheim, Aashild. author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham Springer Nature 2020
Cham : 2020.
Edición:1st ed. 2020.
Colección:Springer Biographies,
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430461806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Comfortable Home - Formative years 1902 - 1943
  • The World Awaits - The new life in Switzerland 1946 – 1996
  • The Dark Chapter - Working in Germany during the war
  • Treason Case number 3418 - The papers in the National Archives
  • But There Was More - The papers in the British and American Intelligence Archives
  • Why? - The unanswered question of why he went to Germany
  • Postscript: The Letter from his Brother. .