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Abstract

Theoretical physics and the institutions that support it have changed greatly during my career. In this article, I recount some of my most memorable experiences as a physicist, first as a graduate student with Rudolf Peierls at the University of Birmingham in England and later as a colleague of Walter Kohn at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California. I use this account to illustrate some of the changes that have occurred in my field and also as a rationale for asserting that theoretical physics has an increasingly vital role to play in modern science.

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2017-03-31
2024-03-28
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Literature Cited

  1. Peierls RE. 1.  1985. Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press
  2. Frisch OR, Peierls R. 2.  1940. On the construction of a “superbomb” based on a nuclear chain reaction in uranium Memorandum, March 1940
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