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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael WiescherPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.878kg ISBN: 9783030806088ISBN 10: 3030806081 Pages: 560 Publication Date: 25 September 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsYouth and Career in the Habsburg Empire 1884 – 1919.- Introduction.- Origins and Childhood.- High School Years.- Years at the University.- After the Doctorate.- Life as a Private Lecturer.- The Leipzig Professorship.- War and Post-War.- Post-War Struggles 1920 – 1924.- Vienna Misery.- The Origins of Emma Beatrice Huber.- The Year 1924 – Hope and Despair.- The Vienna Academy of Sciences 1925 – 1935.- Events at the Vienna Academy of Sciences.- The Institute of International Education (IIE).- Lecture Tour in the USA.- Holiday Stress and other Sorrows.- The Second Journey to America.- From Inner Emigration to Thoughts about the Universe.- The Dark Years.- The University of Notre Dame 1936 – 1942.- Bowdoin College.- University of Notre Dame.- Church and Cosmologies.- German Publishers.- Vienna Exodus.- Family Matters.- Last Plans.- De Mortuis nil nisi Bene.- Post Mortem 1943-2017.- Margarethe Gerstenberger.- Otto Haas.- Emma Beatrice Haas.- The Next Generation.ReviewsAuthor InformationMichael Wiescher is Freimann Professor and Director of the Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame; he is currently also Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University and Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey and the Goethe University Frankfurt. Wiescher studied history and physics in Münster and received his doctorate in 1980 on a topic in nuclear astrophysics. In the following years until 1986, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio State University, at the Institute for Nuclear Chemistry in Mainz, and at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at CalTech. In 1986, he joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame and served later as Director of the Nuclear Science Laboratory and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics. Over the following decades, Wiescher developed a worldwide research programme in nuclear astrophysics, with research projects in the USA, Brazil, Europe, South Africa, and Japan. Wiescher has also developed a programme in archaeometry, in the analysis of art historical and archaeological materials using atomic and nuclear physics methodology, and is involved in various topics in the history of science. Michael Wiescher is Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science and Scientific Member of the Academiae Europaeae. In 2003, he was awarded the Hans Bethe Prize of the DNP & DAP of the American Physical Society and 2018 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize of the American Astronomical Society for his research. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 2007 and the Heraeus Award at the University of Frankfurt in 2017. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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