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Umfang: 1 online resource (XXXIV, 511 p. 28 illus., 14 illus. in color.)

Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2020.

ISBN: 3-030-26338-X

Serie: Springer Biographies,

Inhalt: This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known. The first of Widerøe's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physics was the betatron. He later went on to build the first radiation therapy machine, an advance that would eventually revolutionize cancer treatment. Hospitals worldwide installed his machine, and today’s modern radiation treatment equipment is based on his inventions. Widerøe’s story also includes a fair share of drama, particularly during World War II when both Germans and the Allies vied for his collaboration. Widerøe held leading positions in multinational industry groups and was one of the consultants for building the world's largest nuclear laboratory, CERN, in Switzerland. He gained over 200 patents, received several honorary doctorates and a number of international awards. The author, a professional writer and maker of TV documentaries, has gained access to hitherto restricted archives in several countries, which provided a wealth of new material and insights, in particular in relation to the war years. She tells here a gripping and illuminating story.

Anmerkung: A Comfortable Home - Formative years 1902 - 1943 -- The World Awaits - The new life in Switzerland 1946 – 1996 -- The Dark Chapter - Working in Germany during the war -- Treason Case number 3418 - The papers in the National Archives -- But There Was More - The papers in the British and American Intelligence Archives -- Why? - The unanswered question of why he went to Germany -- Postscript: The Letter from his Brother. . , English

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Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Physik , Allgemeines

Schlagwort(e): Biografie

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26338-6

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Umfang: 1 online resource (544 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9783030263386

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Anmerkung: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 A Comfortable Home -- At the Same Time, Somewhere Else -- A Family of Entrepreneurs -- The Eldest Son Would Study -- Ham and Aquavit -- Spent 30 Øre on Steel Wire -- King Oscar ll Comes to Visit -- The Wealthy Family from Romsdal -- Hiding Grandpa in the Oven -- King Solomon's Mines -- Into the Atomic Age -- Electrical Engineering -- Student Social Life -- An Idea on the Side … -- … Set Aside for Now -- 'It Won't Work!' -- It Still Won't Work! -- Needs Must -- Headhunted -- Keeping an Eye on the Competition -- Aeronautics and Airshows -- The World's Best Relays -- Onwards and Upwards -- The Brothers Take Off -- Dance of Love -- The Fishermen Set Their Clocks by Us -- Grasp the Opportunities -- Headhunted Two -- The USA Takes up the Thread -- Big Science -- A Sponsorship Campaign -- Headhunted Three -- Doctor of Engineering -- I Was Right! -- Hot on the Trail -- Following the Trail -- Surely not … ? -- 2 The World Awaits -- Sound, Stench and Knitted Mitts -- The Secret Room in the Attic -- BBC Becomes ABB -- A New Ford and a Free Hand -- Bergen V. Oslo -- The Radium Hospital Changes Direction -- In Rolf's Own Words -- French Chateaux and Norwegian Summers -- Plus-Fours and Dreams -- Dancing Feet -- The Asklepitron -- None Better? -- After the Betatron Came the Synchrotron -- Something in the Air -- Courageous Italians -- Maybe the Answer Is in the Wastepaper Basket -- Radiotherapy Machines Worldwide -- Not a Teacher -- The Last Emperor -- Celebrities -- 100 Betatrons and 200 Patents -- More Irons in the Fire -- Because I Wanted to -- American Enthusiasm -- This Is How We'll Do It -- America Strikes Back -- A Workhorse -- The Rest of the Alphabet -- Meeting with the Great and Famous -- The Big Questions -- Doris and Petra -- Twenty Years Teaching -- The Art of Compromise. , Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- My Uncle Wasn't Boring -- A Surprising Uncle -- A Brother-in Law Who Is Both Social and Antisocial -- Curiosity Takes New Directions -- Two Pretty Dresses -- Doctor Honoris Causa -- Come and Sit Down, My Boy -- New Triumphs -- More Prizes and Honours -- Nevertheless -- Around the World -- Lacking Only the Nobel Prize -- Just in Time -- The Same Enthusiasm -- The Patent He Didn't Talk About -- The First Love -- The Impossible -- 3 The Dark Chapter -- The Visitation at Work -- Why Rolf? -- A Few Days Later -- The Industry Speeds up -- Contacts -- German Contacts -- And His Answer Is … -- What About the Family? -- Into the Labyrinth -- His Own Boss -- A Strong Team -- Fringe Benefits -- Everyday Life at the Factory -- The Writing in the Sky -- Working from Home -- A Tug-of-War Over the Contract -- Three Phases -- Death Rays -- How It Began -- Schiebold on the Carpet -- Interrupted by the Air-Raid Sirens -- Another Setback for the Death-Ray Project -- More Betatrons -- Time up! -- Heads Roll -- A Visit to Viggo -- Industry on the Offensive -- Hollnack Recruits a Courier -- Siemens Joins the Race -- War on All Fronts -- Medical Use -- The Betatron Must Be Moved to Safety -- Driven by Events -- The Unveiling -- Quite Different Problems -- The World Goes on -- No Passport and Little Money -- 4 Treason Case Number 3418 -- Reported -- Arrested -- Remanded in Custody -- A Defence Lawyer -- Charged -- Interviewed -- Released -- An Expert Committee Is Set up -- The Committee's Report -- The Committee's Conclusion -- More Interviews -- The Main Charge Is Dropped -- No Prosecution -- Forelegg Agreed -- The Points that Were Scored Out -- The Penalty -- Over-reaction -- An Intelligence Officer Visits -- Biased -- Serious Omissions -- Illogical -- What Happened? -- The Passport Question -- The Radium Hospital Intervenes. , The Official in Charge Intervenes -- The Media Intervene -- The Experts Intervene -- No Mitigating Circumstances -- Blackened and Scarred -- But What If … ? -- Insulting and Demeaning -- Five Physicists -- A Guilty Conscience -- Let Bygones Be Bygones -- Are Facts the Same as Truth? -- 5 But There Was More … -- Dinner with Hitler -- The Death-Ray Weapon Becomes a Radiotherapy Machine -- The End of the Double Game -- 'Kellinghusen's Mussolini' -- Contact with Rolf Is Renewed -- To Whom It May Concern -- Serving the Scientific Interests in the World -- Who Is Doing What -- Still a 'Treuhänder' -- Hoping They Say Yes -- Top Secret -- The Link to Rolf -- In Eminent Company -- Hectic Peace -- Delicate Manoeuvring -- His Interest -- His 'Credo' -- His Role as 'Treuhänder' -- His Background -- His Assessment of Schiebold's Ray-Gun -- His Main Achievement-Rolf -- His View of Rolf's Motives -- His Break with the Luftwaffe -- His New Offensive -- His Colleagues and Equipment -- His Agreements Concerning Rolf -- Status -- The Griffin -- War Is War -- The Oslo Report -- Cryptic and Conspiratorial -- When I Was Ready I Was Released -- Colleagues Meet -- The Atomic Age Comes to Norway -- Hard Facts About Alsos -- Operation Epsilon -- The Big Failure -- Captain Randers' Report -- The Interview in the Prison -- The Rest of the Alsos Folder -- A Status Project-The 200 Mega-Electronvolt Machine -- Hush-Hush -- The Internal Report -- Formalities -- Staffing -- Classification -- The Forward Plan -- Hollnack's Report -- But then … -- Cyclotrons and Betatrons -- Betatrons Become Political -- Bombs and Rockets -- Nuclear Research -- Accelerator Research -- Hitler Despised Physics -- Scherrer the Spy -- Top Nazi Officials Involved with Research and Physics -- Good Scientific Contacts -- Three Key People in the Widerøe Group. , German Physicists with Various Connections to the Uranium Club and to Rolf's Project -- Nuclear Physicists Abroad Whose Work Influenced the German Physicists -- Brown Boveri -- Philips-Müller -- General Electric -- Westinghouse -- AEG -- Siemens -- Rich. Seifert & -- Co -- What Became of Them -- The Spider -- 6 Why? -- How? -- Nazi or Not? -- Nevertheless? -- Arild, Oldest Son -- Overheated -- Tried to Understand -- Exciting Conflict -- 'The Mad Scientist' -- At the Right Time -- The Scene Is Set -- Voluntarily or 'voluntarily' -- As Waloschek Saw It -- As the Family Saw It -- 'Transported There' -- Interpreting the Biography -- Bitter? -- Name and Shame -- Membership or not -- Viggo was the Hero -- A Handful of Norwegian Physicists -- A Nobel Prize, Him? -- Behind the Scenes -- In the Wrong Place -- … And in the Right Place -- 'Something' -- The Sons and the War -- Why, Why? -- The Dream -- 7 Postscript: The Letter from His Brother -- The Family Knew Nothing -- In All Directions -- Difficult? -- Two Daughters' Accounts of Their Father and Their Uncle -- Two Sons' Accounts of Their Father and Their Uncle -- Advocate de Besche -- With Inhibitions Down -- The Children Are in Bed -- High Expectations -- - And a Dream -- Inside and Outside His Bubble -- Youthful Enthusiasm -- Solar Energy and Acupuncture -- Always 22 Years Old -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Sørheim, Aashild Obsessed by a Dream Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2019 ISBN 9783030263379

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Umfang: XXXIV, 511 p. 28 illus., 14 illus. in color. , online resource.

Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2020.

ISBN: 9783030263386

Serie: Springer Biographies,

Inhalt: This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known. The first of Widerøe's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physics was the betatron. He later went on to build the first radiation therapy machine, an advance that would eventually revolutionize cancer treatment. Hospitals worldwide installed his machine, and today's modern radiation treatment equipment is based on his inventions. Widerøe's story also includes a fair share of drama, particularly during World War II when both Germans and the Allies vied for his collaboration. Widerøe held leading positions in multinational industry groups and was one of the consultants for building the world's largest nuclear laboratory, CERN, in Switzerland. He gained over 200 patents, received several honorary doctorates and a number of international awards. The author, a professional writer and maker of TV documentaries, has gained access to hitherto restricted archives in several countries, which provided a wealth of new material and insights, in particular in relation to the war years. She tells here a gripping and illuminating story.

Anmerkung: A Comfortable Home - Formative years 1902 - 1943 -- The World Awaits - The new life in Switzerland 1946 - 1996 -- The Dark Chapter - Working in Germany during the war -- Treason Case number 3418 - The papers in the National Archives -- But There Was More - The papers in the British and American Intelligence Archives -- Why? - The unanswered question of why he went to Germany -- Postscript: The Letter from his Brother. .

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26338-6

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 511 pages) : , illustrations (some color)

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Originaltitel: Besatt av en drøm.

Inhalt: This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known. The first of Widerøe's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physics was the betatron. He later went on to build the first radiation therapy machine, an advance that would eventually revolutionize cancer treatment. Hospitals worldwide installed his machine, and today's modern radiation treatment equipment is based on his inventions. Widerøe's story also includes a fair share of drama, particularly during World War II when both Germans and the Allies vied for his collaboration. Widerøe held leading positions in multinational industry groups and was one of the consultants for building the world's largest nuclear laboratory, CERN, in Switzerland. He gained over 200 patents, received several honorary doctorates and a number of international awards. The author, a professional writer and maker of TV documentaries, has gained access to hitherto restricted archives in several countries, which provided a wealth of new material and insights, in particular in relation to the war years. She tells here a gripping and illuminating story.

Anmerkung: A Comfortable Home -- Formative years 1902 -- 1943.- The World Awaits -- The new life in Switzerland 1946 -- 1996.- The Dark Chapter -- Working in Germany during the war.- Treason Case number 3418 -- The papers in the National Archives.- But There Was More -- The papers in the British and American Intelligence Archives.- Why? -- The unanswered question of why he went to Germany.- Postscript: The Letter from his Brother.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Sørheim, Aashild. Obsessed by a Dream : The Physicist Rolf Widerøe - a Giant in the History of Accelerators. Cham : Springer, ©2019 ISBN 9783030263379

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Biography ; Biographies ; Biographies. ; Biographies.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26338-6

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