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Author Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-

Title Memoirs of a physicist in the atomic age / Walter M. Elsasser
Published New York : Science History Publications ; Bristol : Adam Hilger, 1978

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Description xii, 268 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24cm
Contents Includes bibliographical references
Summary This is the autobiography of Walter Maurice Elsasser (1904-1991), a Johns Hopkins University geophysicist who won a National Medal of Science in 1987 for his research in planetary magnetism, the movement of the earth's crust and other fields. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he came to the United States in 1936. He taught and did research at various institutions, joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1975. He is one of the first to recognize that fluid motions within the earth's iron core arising from its cooling might be responsible for the earth's magnetic field. He is also known for work in quantum physics, theory of radioactive nuclei, theoretical biology, logical classes in mathematical biology and systems biology
Analysis Elsasser, Walter M. 1904-
Physicists United States Biography
Physics Elsasser, Walter Maurice Biographies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-
Elsasser, Walter Maurice
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
LC no. 77016583
ISBN 0852744005 (Adam Hilger)
0882021788 (Science History)