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发表于2024-12-24
My World Line: An Informal Autobiography pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
This is an autobiography of the prominent Soviet-American nuclear physicist written in a style similar to that of the later Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Georgy Gamow was born in 1904 in Odessa into a family of schoolteachers. He studied physics at the University of Odessa (then the University of Novorossia) and later at the University of Leningrad, where he befriended Lev Landau and other subsequently less famous physicists. As a student, Gamow also taught physics at an artillery academy; many years later this brief service in the Red Army may have barred him from participating in the Manhattan Project. After graduating, Gamow did physics research at Göttingen under Max Born, at Copenhagen under Niels Bohr, and at Cambridge under Ernest Rutherford. At Göttingen, Gamow used the newly invented quantum mechanics to explain the Geiger-Nuttall rule of alpha decay: the rule ties the kinetic energy of the ejected alpha particle with the logarithm of the half-life of the decaying nucleus; it is because the logarithm function is involved that the range of half-lives is so huge: from microseconds to billions of years. After returning to the Soviet Union, Gamow found relativity and quantum mechanics under assault for being un-Marxist; two decades later Soviet physicists were able to defend themselves using the atomic bomb, but this was still in the future. So Gamow decided to emigrate, even though being a famous young Soviet physicist, he was at the center of attention; Nikolai Bukharin once suggested to Gamow that he run the entire electric power of Moscow power plants through a copper wire impregnated with hydrogen and lithium to achieve controlled nuclear fusion; nice scheme for 1933! Gamow and his wife tried to paddle a canoe across the Black Sea to Turkey, but were caught in a storm and were lucky to come back in one piece. Gamow was sent to the Solvay Conference on nuclear physics as the Soviet representative; he insisted that his wife be brought along as his scientific secretary. They did not return. Gamow went to the United States, where he received a professorship at George Washington University, which is where he stayed for many years, working on Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis, consulting for the military, making a detour into deciphering the genetic code, and writing popular science books about a "Mr Tompkins" who explores the world of modern physics in his dreams.
伽莫夫,俄國天纔物理學傢,後移民美國。
本書譯自他未完成的自傳My World Line
整本书完全是伽莫夫流畅又幽默的风格,可惜最终没能写完,尤其是离开苏联后的经历写得实在简略。如果出于完全不带感情的好奇心来读,这本书就像是一本精彩的段子集,想把每一页都记录下来讲笑话听。但是它不仅是这样。它像任何一本科学家的回忆一样,展现了我们熟知的宏大的历...
評分整本书完全是伽莫夫流畅又幽默的风格,可惜最终没能写完,尤其是离开苏联后的经历写得实在简略。如果出于完全不带感情的好奇心来读,这本书就像是一本精彩的段子集,想把每一页都记录下来讲笑话听。但是它不仅是这样。它像任何一本科学家的回忆一样,展现了我们熟知的宏大的历...
評分整本书完全是伽莫夫流畅又幽默的风格,可惜最终没能写完,尤其是离开苏联后的经历写得实在简略。如果出于完全不带感情的好奇心来读,这本书就像是一本精彩的段子集,想把每一页都记录下来讲笑话听。但是它不仅是这样。它像任何一本科学家的回忆一样,展现了我们熟知的宏大的历...
評分整本书完全是伽莫夫流畅又幽默的风格,可惜最终没能写完,尤其是离开苏联后的经历写得实在简略。如果出于完全不带感情的好奇心来读,这本书就像是一本精彩的段子集,想把每一页都记录下来讲笑话听。但是它不仅是这样。它像任何一本科学家的回忆一样,展现了我们熟知的宏大的历...
評分整本书完全是伽莫夫流畅又幽默的风格,可惜最终没能写完,尤其是离开苏联后的经历写得实在简略。如果出于完全不带感情的好奇心来读,这本书就像是一本精彩的段子集,想把每一页都记录下来讲笑话听。但是它不仅是这样。它像任何一本科学家的回忆一样,展现了我们熟知的宏大的历...
My World Line: An Informal Autobiography pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024