TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hyland,G.J.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Herbert Fröhlich: A Physicist Ahead of His Time 
T2  - Springer Biographies
SN  - 9783319148519
AV  - QC6.9 
U1  - 530.01 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - physics
KW  - History
KW  - Condensed matter
KW  - Physics
KW  - History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
KW  - history of science
KW  - Condensed Matter Physics
KW  - Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
N1  - Chronology -- Prologue -- Early life in Germany.- Moving on - the years of exile.- Life in Bristol -- The Liverpool years - the first Professor of Theoretical Physics -- The Liverpool years - from Professor to Professor Emeritus -- Epilogue
N2  - This biography provides a stimulating and coherent blend of scientific and personal narratives describing the many achievements of the theoretical physicist Herbert Fröhlich. For more than half a century, Fröhlich was an internationally renowned and much respected figure who exerted a decisive influence, often as a ‘man ahead of his time’, in fields as diverse as meson theory and biology. Although best known for his contributions to the theory of dielectrics and superconductivity, he worked in many other fields, his most important legacy being the pioneering introduction quantum field-theoretical methods into condensed matter physics in 1952, which revolutionised the subsequent development of the subject. Gerard Hyland has written an absorbing and informative account, in which Herbert Fröhlich’s magnetic personality shines through
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14851-9
ER  -