04377nam 22007095 450 991041004410332120251113201423.03-030-34766-410.1007/978-3-030-34766-6(CKB)4100000011223422(MiAaPQ)EBC6187104(DE-He213)978-3-030-34766-6(PPN)243763158(MiAaPQ)EBC29092652(EXLCZ)99410000001122342220200424d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMosaic of a Scientific Life /by István Hargittai1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2020.1 online resource (175 pages)Includes index.3-030-34765-6 Otto Bastiansen -- László Bitó -- Francis Crick -- Mihály Csonkás -- György Dalos -- Edgar Degas -- Lars Ernster -- László Fejes Tóth -- Árpád Furka -- Pál Gadó -- Richard L. Garwin -- Ronald J. Gillespie -- André Goodfriend -- Árpád Göncz -- József Hernádi -- Avram Hershko -- Lloyd Kahn -- Gyorgy Kepes -- Károly Kerti -- George Klein -- Arthur Koestler -- Ferenc Lantos -- Torvard C. Laurent -- Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield -- Peter D. Lax -- Sándor Lengyel -- Alan L. Mackay -- George Marx -- Barbara Mez-Starck -- Kurt Mislow -- Charles T. Munger -- Yuval Ne’eman -- Paul Nurse -- George A. Olah -- István Orosz -- Guy Ourisson -- Michael Polanyi -- Gabriela Radulescu -- Andrei D. Sakharov -- Géza Simonffy and Nikolai N. Semenov -- Albert Szent-Györgyi -- Edward Teller -- Lev V. Vilkov -- James D. Watson -- Richard Wiegandt -- Eugene P. Wigner.In this book, István Hargittai, an internationally renowned physical chemist, narrates his life by introducing over forty personalities that played noteworthy roles in his career. The time span ranges from the Holocaust, which the author survived, through the periods of hard and softer dictatorships of Soviet-type socialism, and the current revival of an autocratic regime in Hungary. He overcame barriers to get a high school, then a university education. He received excellent training in Moscow and was active at Hungarian, American and other international scientific venues, and he has interacted with more Nobel laureates than anyone in the world. The chapters feature such famous contributors to world science as Francis Crick, Richard L. Garwin, Ronald J. Gillespie, Avram Hershko, George Klein, Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield, Peter D. Lax, Paul Nurse, Yuval Ne’eman, George A. Olah, Guy Ourisson, Michael Polanyi, Andrei D. Sakharov, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Edward Teller, James D.Watson, and Eugene P. Wigner. The areas covered include chemistry, molecular biology, physics, materials science, and mathematics. “On the basis of Hargittai’s mosaic of his personal and scientific life, I could compose two further patterns. One would be the history of the twentieth century and the other the science history of the same time period.” From the Foreword by the late philosopher Agnes Heller, Goethe Medalist, Wallenberg Medalist, and Hannah Arendt Prize laureate.ChemistryChemistryHistoryScienceHistoryEngineeringMathematicsLife sciencesChemistryHistory of ChemistryHistory of ScienceTechnology and EngineeringMathematics and ComputingLife SciencesChemistry.ChemistryHistory.ScienceHistory.Engineering.Mathematics.Life sciences.Chemistry.History of Chemistry.History of Science.Technology and Engineering.Mathematics and Computing.Life Sciences.509.22Hargittai Istvánauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut21292MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910410044103321Mosaic of a Scientific Life2532916UNINA