The Spaceship Orion And Other Scientific Explorations

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A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein's expedition to Mount Everest, cherished encounters with the fathers of Quantum Mechanics (Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrodinger), to a jovial collaboration with Freeman Dyson on the Orion spaceship project. This essay collection is a door into several pieces of scientific explorations as well as the celebrated life of Jeremy Bernstein, a physicist, professor and phenomenal writer. Readers will enjoy this book as both an autobiography and a popular science reading. Contents Preface Chapter 1 Reflections on Project Orion Joining Orion The Origins of Orion Specific Impulse Opacity The End of Orion Looking Back and Looking Forward Chapter 2 The Whisperer Chapter 3 Genia and Rudi Chapter 4 The Mercator Projection Chapter 5 A Trick of Memory — 239 Central Park West Chapter 6 Lise Meitner: The Discovery of Nuclear Fission A Walk in the Woods A Life in Physics History Rewritten Chapter 7 The Merely Good Chapter 8 Wien Wien nur du Allein Chapter 9 The Kinder Transport Chapter 10 W.H. Auden et al. Chapter 11 Entanglement Erwin Schrödinger — 1935 Chapter 12 Feynman Chapter 13 Leonhard Euler and the Atomic Bomb Chapter 14 Murder in the Academy Chapter 15 A Life Chapter 16 Proust Proust’s Fourth Dimension Night–Friday–Saturday Chapter 17 A Travesty Chapter 18 Fact and Fiction Chapter 19 Max Chapter 20 The Life it Brought