LEADER 04173nam 22006135 450 001 9910841864703321 005 20250807135653.0 010 $a3-031-51042-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-51042-7 035 $a(CKB)30597460000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31281854 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31281854 035 $a(OCoLC)1424862357 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-51042-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930597460000041 100 $a20240225d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHerwig Schopper $eScientist and Diplomat in a Changing World /$fby Herwig Schopper, James Gillies 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (278 pages) 225 1 $aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0621 311 08$a3-031-51041-0 327 $aOrigins:1924 ? 1939 -- The War Years: 1939 ? 1945 -- Studies at Hamburg: 1945 ? 1950 -- At Stockholm with Lise Meitner: 1950 ? 1951 -- Erlangen and Cambridge: 1954 ? 1959 -- Mainz: 1959 ? 1960 -- At Cornell with Robert Rathbun Wilson: 1960 ? 1961 -- Karlsruhe: 1961 - 1973 -- A user at DESY and CERN: 1967 ? 1973 -- Director of DESY: 1973 ? 1980 -- Director-General of CERN: 1981 ? 1988 -- A busy retirement: 1989 ? now -- SESAME: 1998 ? now -- Epilogue: The place of science in the modern world. 330 $aThis open access book is both a memoir and a biography. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, Herwig Schopper is one of the few people able to bear witness to 100 years of European history. His career has taken him from research to management to diplomacy, with a major part devoted to, and inspired by, CERN. Herwig enjoyed a rich childhood, spending his summers at his grandparent?s hotel on the Adriatic coast. It is there that he developed an interest in physics though eavesdropping on holidaying professors from Budapest and Belgrade who conversed in German. His youthful idyll was shattered by the annexation of the Sudetenland, which lead to him serving in the Luftwaffe signals corps. Working as a translator for the British administration in Hamburg after the war, he also enrolled at the University and was soon granted leave to travel outside Germany for his research. So began a long string of professional relationships with leading scientists of the day: Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch, Bob Wilson, Chien Shiung Wu, Masatoshi Koshiba and Sam Ting to name but a few. Herwig came to consider them all as friends. Through his long career, Herwig has played a leading role in institutions from Erlangen to Karlsruhe, and from DESY, where he was director from 1973 to 1980, to CERN, where he served as Director-General from 1981 to 1988. Since its foundation CERN has had two major missions: to conduct first-class scientific research and to foster peaceful relations between nations. Following this example Herwig has played a key role in pioneering the deployment of science for peace, notably through the SESAME laboratory in the Middle East. This book gives a full account of Herwig?s rich and varied life and concludes with his reflections on the challenges that society faces today. . 410 0$aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0621 606 $aPhysicists$vBiography 606 $aAstronomers$vBiography 606 $aParticle accelerators 606 $aScience$xStudy and teaching 606 $aBiographies of Physicists and Astronomers 606 $aAccelerator Physics 606 $aScience Education 615 0$aPhysicists 615 0$aAstronomers 615 0$aParticle accelerators. 615 0$aScience$xStudy and teaching. 615 14$aBiographies of Physicists and Astronomers. 615 24$aAccelerator Physics. 615 24$aScience Education. 676 $a530.092 700 $aSchopper$b Herwig$048924 701 $aGillies$b James$0496295 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910841864703321 996 $aHerwig Schopper$94168842 997 $aUNINA