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Obsessed by a Dream : The Physicist Rolf Widerøe - a Giant in the History of Accelerators.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sørheim, Aashild.
Other Authors:	Stewart, Frank.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Springer Biographies Series
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Intro
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 A Comfortable Home
At the Same Time, Somewhere Else
A Family of Entrepreneurs
The Eldest Son Would Study
Ham and Aquavit
Spent 30 Øre on Steel Wire
King Oscar ll Comes to Visit
The Wealthy Family from Romsdal
Hiding Grandpa in the Oven
King Solomon's Mines
Into the Atomic Age
Electrical Engineering
Student Social Life
An Idea on the Side …
… Set Aside for Now
'It Won't Work!'
It Still Won't Work!
Needs Must
Headhunted
Keeping an Eye on the Competition
Aeronautics and Airshows
The World's Best Relays
Onwards and Upwards
The Brothers Take Off
Dance of Love
The Fishermen Set Their Clocks by Us
Grasp the Opportunities
Headhunted Two
The USA Takes up the Thread
Big Science
A Sponsorship Campaign
Headhunted Three
Doctor of Engineering
I Was Right!
Hot on the Trail
Following the Trail
Surely not … ?
2 The World Awaits
Sound, Stench and Knitted Mitts
The Secret Room in the Attic
BBC Becomes ABB
A New Ford and a Free Hand
Bergen V. Oslo
The Radium Hospital Changes Direction
In Rolf's Own Words
French Chateaux and Norwegian Summers
Plus-Fours and Dreams
Dancing Feet
The Asklepitron
None Better?
After the Betatron Came the Synchrotron
Something in the Air
Courageous Italians
Maybe the Answer Is in the Wastepaper Basket
Radiotherapy Machines Worldwide
Not a Teacher
The Last Emperor
Celebrities
100 Betatrons and 200 Patents
More Irons in the Fire
Because I Wanted to
American Enthusiasm
This Is How We'll Do It
America Strikes Back
A Workhorse
The Rest of the Alphabet
Meeting with the Great and Famous
The Big Questions
Doris and Petra
Twenty Years Teaching
The Art of Compromise.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
My Uncle Wasn't Boring
A Surprising Uncle
A Brother-in Law Who Is Both Social and Antisocial
Curiosity Takes New Directions
Two Pretty Dresses
Doctor Honoris Causa
Come and Sit Down, My Boy
New Triumphs
More Prizes and Honours
Nevertheless
Around the World
Lacking Only the Nobel Prize
Just in Time
The Same Enthusiasm
The Patent He Didn't Talk About
The First Love
The Impossible
3 The Dark Chapter
The Visitation at Work
Why Rolf?
A Few Days Later
The Industry Speeds up
Contacts
German Contacts
And His Answer Is …
What About the Family?
Into the Labyrinth
His Own Boss
A Strong Team
Fringe Benefits
Everyday Life at the Factory
The Writing in the Sky
Working from Home
A Tug-of-War Over the Contract
Three Phases
Death Rays
How It Began
Schiebold on the Carpet
Interrupted by the Air-Raid Sirens
Another Setback for the Death-Ray Project
More Betatrons
Time up!
Heads Roll
A Visit to Viggo
Industry on the Offensive
Hollnack Recruits a Courier
Siemens Joins the Race
War on All Fronts
Medical Use
The Betatron Must Be Moved to Safety
Driven by Events
The Unveiling
Quite Different Problems
The World Goes on
No Passport and Little Money
4 Treason Case Number 3418
Reported
Arrested
Remanded in Custody
A Defence Lawyer
Charged
Interviewed
Released
An Expert Committee Is Set up
The Committee's Report
The Committee's Conclusion
More Interviews
The Main Charge Is Dropped
No Prosecution
Forelegg Agreed
The Points that Were Scored Out
The Penalty
Over-reaction
An Intelligence Officer Visits
Biased
Serious Omissions
Illogical
What Happened?
The Passport Question
The Radium Hospital Intervenes.
The Official in Charge Intervenes
The Media Intervene
The Experts Intervene
No Mitigating Circumstances
Blackened and Scarred
But What If … ?
Insulting and Demeaning
Five Physicists
A Guilty Conscience
Let Bygones Be Bygones
Are Facts the Same as Truth?
5 But There Was More …
Dinner with Hitler
The Death-Ray Weapon Becomes a Radiotherapy Machine
The End of the Double Game
'Kellinghusen's Mussolini'
Contact with Rolf Is Renewed
To Whom It May Concern
Serving the Scientific Interests in the World
Who Is Doing What
Still a 'Treuhänder'
Hoping They Say Yes
Top Secret
The Link to Rolf
In Eminent Company
Hectic Peace
Delicate Manoeuvring
His Interest
His 'Credo'
His Role as 'Treuhänder'
His Background
His Assessment of Schiebold's Ray-Gun
His Main Achievement-Rolf
His View of Rolf's Motives
His Break with the Luftwaffe
His New Offensive
His Colleagues and Equipment
His Agreements Concerning Rolf
Status
The Griffin
War Is War
The Oslo Report
Cryptic and Conspiratorial
When I Was Ready I Was Released
Colleagues Meet
The Atomic Age Comes to Norway
Hard Facts About Alsos
Operation Epsilon
The Big Failure
Captain Randers' Report
The Interview in the Prison
The Rest of the Alsos Folder
A Status Project-The 200 Mega-Electronvolt Machine
Hush-Hush
The Internal Report
Formalities
Staffing
Classification
The Forward Plan
Hollnack's Report
But then …
Cyclotrons and Betatrons
Betatrons Become Political
Bombs and Rockets
Nuclear Research
Accelerator Research
Hitler Despised Physics
Scherrer the Spy
Top Nazi Officials Involved with Research and Physics
Good Scientific Contacts
Three Key People in the Widerøe Group.
German Physicists with Various Connections to the Uranium Club and to Rolf's Project
Nuclear Physicists Abroad Whose Work Influenced the German Physicists
Brown Boveri
Philips-Müller
General Electric
Westinghouse
AEG
Siemens
Rich. Seifert &amp
Co
What Became of Them
The Spider
6 Why?
How?
Nazi or Not?
Nevertheless?
Arild, Oldest Son
Overheated
Tried to Understand
Exciting Conflict
'The Mad Scientist'
At the Right Time
The Scene Is Set
Voluntarily or 'voluntarily'
As Waloschek Saw It
As the Family Saw It
'Transported There'
Interpreting the Biography
Bitter?
Name and Shame
Membership or not
Viggo was the Hero
A Handful of Norwegian Physicists
A Nobel Prize, Him?
Behind the Scenes
In the Wrong Place
… And in the Right Place
'Something'
The Sons and the War
Why, Why?
The Dream
7 Postscript: The Letter from His Brother
The Family Knew Nothing
In All Directions
Difficult?
Two Daughters' Accounts of Their Father and Their Uncle
Two Sons' Accounts of Their Father and Their Uncle
Advocate de Besche
With Inhibitions Down
The Children Are in Bed
High Expectations
- And a Dream
Inside and Outside His Bubble
Youthful Enthusiasm
Solar Energy and Acupuncture
Always 22 Years Old
Index.

Obsessed by a Dream : The Physicist Rolf Widerøe - a Giant in the History of Accelerators.

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