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Format: 1 online resource (278 pages)

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ISBN: 9783031510427

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Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Authors' Note -- Notes from James Gillies -- Notes from Herwig Schopper -- Contents -- 1 Early Years and Private Life -- Seismic Political Changes -- In His Own Words -- The Wonders of Physics -- Private Life -- 2 The War Years -- Basic Military Training -- The Eastern Front -- The End of the War -- In His Own Words: A Visit to Sanssouci -- References -- 3 Studies in Hamburg 1945-1954 -- A Diploma in Optics -- Restrictions on Nuclear Research in Germany Relax -- Formative Years -- In His Own Words: Family Matters -- Reference -- 4 A University Professor, and Establishing New Institutes -- The Years at Erlangen -- Measuring the Circular Polarisation of Gamma Rays -- The First Spin-Polarised Proton Beam Source -- Meeting Other Scientists -- Moving to Mainz and the Foundation of MAMI -- The Foundation of CERN and DESY Leads to Difficult Decisions -- High-Energy Accelerators at Karlsruhe? -- A Second CERN Laboratory and the SPS -- Successes in Science -- Accelerator Technology and Superconducting Cavities -- In His Own Words: Who Cares About Neutrons? The Hadron Calorimeter -- Reference -- 5 The Travelling Years - Stockholm, Cambridge and Cornell -- The Visible Spectrum and Beyond -- A Sojourn in Stockholm with Lise Meitner -- On to Cambridge -- The Principle of Symmetry Invariance -- An Early Experiment on Mirror Reflection Invariance -- A Year at Cornell -- In His Own Words: Learning About the English Way -- Reference -- 6 To DESY via CERN -- A Tale of Two Machines -- An Offer Too Good to Refuse-Back to Hamburg -- DORIS: A Collider, not a Girl -- The Discovery of Charm -- Another Broken Symmetry-CP -- DORIS's Last Particle Physics Hurrah! -- From DORIS to PETRA -- Synchrotron Radiation-A Valuable Spin-Off -- The Electron Collider Race to 20 GeV -- Physics at PETRA and the Discovery of the Gluon -- A New Lease of Life for PETRA. , HERA-A Legacy -- In His Own Words -- The Chinese at DESY -- Acknowledgements -- References for Gluon Discovery -- 7 Director-General of CERN -- Electing the New Director-General and Reunifying the Lab -- The LEP Proposal -- A New Style for CERN -- A Nobel Discovery -- Spain Re-joins CERN: An Excursion in a Wheelchair -- Portugal: Much Work in a Beautiful Country -- Water at the End of the Tunnel -- Building the Machine -- The Decisions Were Made at the Bar -- An Eye on the Future: Superconducting Cavities and Magnets -- CERN Under the Microscope: The Kendrew and Abragam Committees -- And the Answer is Three: The First Results from LEP -- The Future of CERN -- In His Own Words: Encounters with Remarkable People -- A Prime Ministerial Visit -- An Interesting Collaboration -- Reference -- 8 From Science to Science Diplomacy -- ROSTE-Getting to Know Venice -- The UNESCO International Basic Sciences Programme -- The Nobel Prize-Winner and the President -- Excursions into Nuclear Fusion -- A Cuban Interlude -- IUPAP Looks into the Role of Women in Physics -- Forum Engelberg -- The Foundation of the Cyprus Institute -- In His Own Words: Exploring Cuba -- References -- 9 Travels to the Far East -- China -- The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) -- A Friendship Across Cultures -- Bismuth Germanium Oxide for the L3 Experiment at CERN -- A Memorial to Chien-Shiung Wu -- Taiwan ROC -- Japan -- The Subcontinent: Pakistan -- India -- Vietnam -- In His Own Words: Memories from a Big Country -- Reference -- 10 The Large Machines: LEP, the LHC and Beyond -- A Nail-Biting Finish -- LEP's Contribution to Physics -- Theory and Experiment -- In His Own Words: Incredible Precision and a Lasting Legacy -- References -- 11 Science for Peace with SESAME and SEEIIST -- The New Laboratory Takes Seed -- UNESCO Takes the Lead -- Securing BESSY. , The Formal Foundation of SESAME -- Building the Laboratory -- Towards the Third Generation -- The Origins of SEEIIST -- Two Concrete Studies -- Phase 1 of SEEIIST -- The Swiss Initiative -- In His Own Words: Finding a Home for SESAME -- References -- 12 In His Own Words: Epilogue and Reflexions -- Science at the Centre of My Life -- The Importance of Fundamental Science and Technology in a Changing World -- Scientific Careers in Changing Times -- Public Understanding of Science -- Sensationalism and Scientific Revolutions -- Science, Politics and the Role of Forecasts -- Is There a Universal Truth? -- Is Technical and Social Progress Too Quick for the Human Mind? -- What Are the Priorities in Politics? -- A World in Transition -- References -- Some Important Publications by Herwig Schopper -- Index.

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Format: 1 online resource (278 pages)

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Series Statement: Springer Biographies Series

Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Authors' Note -- Notes from James Gillies -- Notes from Herwig Schopper -- Contents -- 1 Early Years and Private Life -- Seismic Political Changes -- In His Own Words -- The Wonders of Physics -- Private Life -- 2 The War Years -- Basic Military Training -- The Eastern Front -- The End of the War -- In His Own Words: A Visit to Sanssouci -- References -- 3 Studies in Hamburg 1945-1954 -- A Diploma in Optics -- Restrictions on Nuclear Research in Germany Relax -- Formative Years -- In His Own Words: Family Matters -- Reference -- 4 A University Professor, and Establishing New Institutes -- The Years at Erlangen -- Measuring the Circular Polarisation of Gamma Rays -- The First Spin-Polarised Proton Beam Source -- Meeting Other Scientists -- Moving to Mainz and the Foundation of MAMI -- The Foundation of CERN and DESY Leads to Difficult Decisions -- High-Energy Accerarators at Karlsruhe? -- A Second CERN Laboratory and the SPS -- Successes in Science -- Accelerator Technology and Superconducting Cavities -- In His Own Words: Who Cares About Neutrons? The Hadron Calorimeter -- Reference -- 5 The Travelling Years - Stockholm, Cambridge and Cornell -- The Visible Spectrum and Beyond -- A Sojourn in Stockholm with Lise Meitner -- On to Cambridge -- The Principle of Symmetry Invariance -- An Early Experiment on Mirror Reflection Invariance -- A Year at Cornell -- In His Own Words: Learning About the English Way -- Reference -- 6 To DESY via CERN -- A Tale of Two Machines -- An Offer Too Good to Refuse-Back to Hamburg -- DORIS: A Collider, not a Girl -- The Discovery of Charm -- Another Broken Symmetry-CP -- DORIS's Last Particle Physics Hurrah! -- From DORIS to PETRA -- Synchrotron Radiation-A Valuable Spin-Off -- The Electron Collider Race to 20 GeV -- Physics at PETRA and the Discovery of the Gluon -- A New Lease of Life for PETRA. , HERA-A Legacy -- In His Own Words -- The Chinese at DESY -- Acknowledgements -- References for Gluon Discovery -- 7 Director-General of CERN -- Electing the New Director-General and Reunifying the Lab -- The LEP Proposal -- A New Style for CERN -- A Nobel Discovery -- Spain Re-joins CERN: An Excursion in a Wheelchair -- Portugal: Much Work in a Beautiful Country -- Water at the End of the Tunnel -- Building the Machine -- The Decisions Were Made at the Bar -- An Eye on the Future: Superconducting Cavities and Magnets -- CERN Under the Microscope: The Kendrew and Abragam Committees -- And the Answer is Three: The First Results from LEP -- The Future of CERN -- In His Own Words: Encounters with Remarkable People -- A Prime Ministerial Visit -- An Interesting Collaboration -- Reference -- 8 From Science to Science Diplomacy -- ROSTE-Getting to Know Venice -- The UNESCO International Basic Sciences Programme -- The Nobel Prize-Winner and the President -- Excursions into Nuclear Fusion -- A Cuban Interlude -- IUPAP Looks into the Role of Women in Physics -- Forum Engelberg -- The Foundation of the Cyprus Institute -- In His Own Words: Exploring Cuba -- References -- 9 Travels to the Far East -- China -- The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) -- A Friendship Across Cultures -- Bismuth Germanium Oxide for the L3 Experiment at CERN -- A Memorial to Chien-Shiung Wu -- Taiwan ROC -- Japan -- The Subcontinent: Pakistan -- India -- Vietnam -- In His Own Words: Memories from a Big Country -- Reference -- 10 The Large Machines: LEP, the LHC and Beyond -- A Nail-Biting Finish -- LEP's Contribution to Physics -- Theory and Experiment -- In His Own Words: Incredible Precision and a Lasting Legacy -- References -- 11 Science for Peace with SESAME and SEEIIST -- The New Laboratory Takes Seed -- UNESCO Takes the Lead -- Securing BESSY. , The Formal Foundation of SESAME -- Building the Laboratory -- Towards the Third Generation -- The Origins of SEEIIST -- Two Concrete Studies -- Phase 1 of SEEIIST -- The Swiss Initiative -- In His Own Words: Finding a Home for SESAME -- References -- 12 In His Own Words: Epilogue and Reflexions -- Science at the Centre of My Life -- The Importance of Fundamental Science and Technology in a Changing World -- Scientific Careers in Changing Times -- Public Understanding of Science -- Sensationalism and Scientific Revolutions -- Science, Politics and the Role of Forecasts -- Is There a Universal Truth? -- Is Technical and Social Progress Too Quick for the Human Mind? -- What Are the Priorities in Politics? -- A World in Transition -- References -- Some Important Publications by Herwig Schopper -- Index.

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ISBN: 9783031510427

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Content: This 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. .

Note: Origins: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.

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