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This biography provides a stimulating and coherent blend of
scientific and personal narratives describing the many achievements
of the theoretical physicist Herbert Fröhlich. For more than half
a century, Fröhlich was an internationally renowned and much
respected figure who exerted a decisive influence, often as a
‘man ahead of his time’, in fields as diverse as meson theory
and biology. Although best known for his contributions to the
theory of dielectrics and superconductivity, he worked in many
other fields, his most important legacy being the pioneering
introduction quantum field-theoretical methods into condensed
matter physics in 1952, which revolutionised the subsequent
development of the subject. Gerard Hyland has written an absorbing
and informative account, in which Herbert Fröhlich’s magnetic
personality shines through.
This biography provides a stimulating and coherent blend of
scientific and personal narratives describing the many achievements
of the theoretical physicist Herbert Froehlich. For more than half
a century, Froehlich was an internationally renowned and much
respected figure who exerted a decisive influence, often as a 'man
ahead of his time', in fields as diverse as meson theory and
biology. Although best known for his contributions to the theory of
dielectrics and superconductivity, he worked in many other fields,
his most important legacy being the pioneering introduction quantum
field-theoretical methods into condensed matter physics in 1952,
which revolutionised the subsequent development of the subject.
Gerard Hyland has written an absorbing and informative account, in
which Herbert Froehlich's magnetic personality shines through.
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