By H.B.G. Casimir
ISBN-10: 9089642005
ISBN-13: 9789089642004
Casimir, himself a recognized doctor, studied and labored with 3 nice physicists of the 20th century: Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli and Paul Ehrenfest. In his autobiography, the intense theoretician shall we the reader witness the revolution that resulted in quantum physics, whose impression on smooth society grew to become out to be repeatedly greater than the 1st atomic physicists may have imagined. via his involvement within the technical-scientific and the enterprise elements of physics, via administration positions at Philips examine Laboratory and as a member of the Board of administrators of Philips, Professor Casimir is the proper individual to put part a century of advancements in physics in the context of significant occasions on the planet. With a ahead by means of Frans. W. Saris. www.FransWSaris.nl
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Her father, a son of a hotelkeeper in the Groningen countryside, was a teacher at a school for deaf-mutes; her mother came from a big farm. I have mentioned already that my mother had been a schoolteacher and had attended my father's lectures. She had three sisters and two brothers. The elder brother became a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church-he belonged definitely to the liberal nondogmatic wing of that institution. The younger one, after some unsuccessful attempts at a career in industry and in office work, acquired a considerable reputation (and earned a comfortable income) as a faith healer.
It stayed provisional for more than half a century. By 1909-the year of my birth-these hurdles had been taken and the school was officially opened. It had already been in operation for three years as an annex to a private elementary school. My father Family Background and Schooldays I 15 was devoted to his school. The telephone in our home might ring at any time, during meals or late at night and during the weekend. Then he would quote I Samuel 3:9, "Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth," before lifting the receiver, and he would listen patiently to whatever wish or complaint or problem a parent or a teacher might want to discuss.
Family Background and Schooldays I 13 when he came home and if I had heard the crying and sobbing of his wife and children when they were beaten up, I would have felt differently; my mother, who before her marriage had been a schoolteacher in a notoriously tough and poor rural area, wholeheartedly concurred. One of the men he met in the course of his extracurricular activities was Jan Ligthart, and it gives me real pleasure to devote a page ofa book that will deal mairily with the progress of science and with prominent scientists to this humble headmaster of an elementary school in a slum quarter of The Hague.
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