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Benjamin Lax - Interviews on a Life in Physics at MIT - Understanding and Exploiting the Effects of Magnetic Fields on Matter (Hardcover)
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Benjamin Lax - Interviews on a Life in Physics at MIT - Understanding and Exploiting the Effects of Magnetic Fields on Matter (Hardcover)
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This book covers the life and 60-year career of Prof. Benjamin Lax
(1915-2015), a preeminent physicist at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT), who played major roles in the development and
applications of solid state and plasma physics. In an extensive
series of autobiographical interviews, Lax describes the challenges
he overcame, the opportunities he embraced, and the many
outstanding research physicists he recruited, mentored, and
interacted with. He includes both personal and professional
reminiscences. Lax begins with his earliest memories of his
childhood in Hungary. He recalls the immigration of his family to
America and his education in New York City. He describes his Army
service as a Radar Officer at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during
World War II. He covers his graduate education in physics at MIT,
and his building up the semiconductor and ferrite research groups
at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the 1950s. He describes the origins
and accomplishments of the MIT Francis Bitter National Magnet
Laboratory, of which he was the founding Director, and recalls his
tenure as professor in the MIT physics department. Features:
Provides a valuable insight into a 60-year career in physics at one
of the world's major research universities, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Explores the organization, funding, and
conduct of solid state physics research in the second half of the
twentieth century Includes a complete bibliography of Lax's
publications in an online supplement
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