Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 530.142 EAN: 9780394545035 Edition: 1st ed ISBN: 0394545036 Label: Random House Manufacturer: Random House Number Of Pages: 261 Publication Date: January 12, 1987 Publisher: Random House Release Date: January 12, 1987 Studio: Random House
Rating: - Trashing Nobelist Rubbia
The author trashed a well known physicist for reasons totally beyond me. Most super-stars of science have huge egos and many detracters. Kerry Mullis, Robert Good, and David Baltimore have all three been accused of arrogance so its nothing new. Incidently,the author trashed Nobelist Prusiner too so Rubbia is in good company!!!!!!!!!!!! Aside from The Patchwork Mouse and False Prophets, very few journalists do justice to the subject of scientific fraud!!!!
Rating: - Academic Reality
Contains a good combination of hard science and the politics of actually getting stuff done. I appreciated the details of experimental particle physics, but the best part of the book is the insider perspective on getting grant money, timing the delivery of experimental results and positioning oneself for recognition from the Nobel committee. The interplay between the theorists and experimentalists was also illuminating. The only negative factor's were the needless comments on what people were ... Read More
Rating: - A great read
This book hooked me so completely that when I came across it in the library I read it from cover to cover standing (then sitting) in the aisle. Anyone with an interest in high-energy physics or academic politics with enjoy it immensely.
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Carlo Taube was a virtuoso pianist. He studied with Busoni in Vienna for some time. He played in cafes and night clubs, first in Vienna and later in Brno and Prague, to earn a living. With his wife Erika and their child, he arrived at Terezín in December, 1941. There Taube led concerts of semi-classical music, very much in the style of the "spa" orchestras popular in pre-war Europe, in the musical pavilion in the neglected park on the Terezín square. He also gave ambitious piano concerts, probably overly-ambitious, according to some critics in the crowd. Taube composed a number of works in Terezin, but only one survives, the song “Ein Jüdisches Kind”, composed on 4 November 1942, set to a text by his wife, Erika. This short but moving work has some Hebraic elements in its melodic writing, while its simple but effective harmonies are reminiscent of what may have been Taube’s piano style in the clubs. Both the poem and music are a touching tribute to their own Jewish child, who accompanied his parents to Auschwitz in October 1944, where they perished. [source: http://www.leonarda.com/program-notes/note342.html]
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