Autobiographical sketch, ca. 1969.

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Autobiographical sketch, ca. 1969.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79909424

The sketch discusses Nordheim's early life and education in Munich during World War I; student life (1919-1924) in Hamburg, Munich, and Göttingen; his Ph.D. work in 1923 with Max Born; his work from 1927-1933 at the Cavendish Laboratory with David Hilbert, interrupted by travels to the U.S. (1930) and Russia (1932); his immigration to the U.S. (1935) where he joined the physics faculty at Purdue University (1935-1937); his move to Duke University to continue his work in solid state, nuclear, high-energy, and meson physics; World War II work at the Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago, and at Oak Ridge on the Manhattan Project; and an evaluation of his own abilities.

30 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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