Herwig Schopper: Scientist and Diplomat in a Changing World

Schopper, Herwig, Gillies, James

Herwig Schopper: Scientist and Diplomat in a Changing World
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-05
  • 售價: $2,220
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 273
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031510445
  • ISBN-13: 9783031510441

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商品描述

This open access book is both a memoir and a biography. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, Herwig Schopper is one of the few people able to bear witness to 100 years of European history. His career has taken him from research to management to diplomacy, with a major part devoted to, and inspired by, CERN.


Herwig enjoyed a rich childhood, spending his summers at his grandparent's hotel on the Adriatic coast. It is there that he developed an interest in physics though eavesdropping on holidaying professors from Budapest and Belgrade who conversed in German. His youthful idyll was shattered by the annexation of the Sudetenland, which lead to him serving in the Luftwaffe signals corps. Working as a translator for the British administration in Hamburg after the war, he also enrolled at the University and was soon granted leave to travel outside Germany for his research. So began a long string of professional relationships with leading scientists of the day: Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch, Bob Wilson, Chien Shiung Wu, Masatoshi Koshiba and Sam Ting to name but a few. Herwig came to consider them all as friends.


Through his long career, Herwig has played a leading role in institutions from Erlangen to Karlsruhe, and from DESY, where he was director from 1973 to 1980, to CERN, where he served as Director-General from 1981 to 1988. Since its foundation CERN has had two major missions: to conduct first-class scientific research and to foster peaceful relations between nations. Following this example Herwig has played a key role in pioneering the deployment of science for peace, notably through the SESAME laboratory in the Middle East. This book gives a full account of Herwig's rich and varied life and concludes with his reflections on the challenges that society faces today.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本開放存取的書既是一本回憶錄，也是一本傳記。Herwig Schopper於1924年出生在捷克斯洛伐克，是少數能見證100年歐洲歷史的人之一。他的職業生涯從研究、管理到外交，其中一個重要部分是致力於並受到歐洲核子研究組織（CERN）的啟發。

Herwig度過了豐富多彩的童年，在亞得里亞海岸的祖父母的旅館度過了夏天。正是在那裡，他通過偷聽在假期期間用德語交談的布達佩斯和貝爾格萊德的教授們，對物理學產生了興趣。他的青春時光被蘇台德地區的吞併所打破，他在空軍信號部隊服役。戰後在漢堡擔任英國行政機構的翻譯員期間，他還入讀大學，很快獲准離開德國進行研究。從那時起，他與當時的頂尖科學家建立了長期的專業關係，其中包括Lise Meitner、Otto Frisch、Bob Wilson、Chien Shiung Wu、Masatoshi Koshiba和Sam Ting等人。Herwig視他們為朋友。

在他的職業生涯中，Herwig在從Erlangen到Karlsruhe的機構中扮演了重要角色，並在DESY擔任主任（1973年至1980年）以及CERN擔任總幹事（1981年至1988年）。自成立以來，CERN有兩個主要使命：進行一流的科學研究和促進國家之間的和平關係。遵循這個例子，Herwig在推動科學用於和平方面發揮了關鍵作用，尤其是通過中東的SESAME實驗室。本書詳細介紹了Herwig豐富多樣的生活，並以他對當今社會面臨的挑戰的思考作為結尾。

作者簡介

Herwig Franz Schopper received a doctorate from the University of Hamburg before holding positions at Erlangen, Mainz and Karlsruhe before moving to CERN in 1970 as leader of the Nuclear Physics Division. In 1973, he returned to Hamburg, where he chaired the DESY directorate until becoming Director General of CERN in 1981, overseeing major organisational changes at the Laboratory, as well as the construction of a new flagship research facility, the Large Electron Positron collider, LEP. Following his retirement in 1989, Professor Schopper embarked on a second career as a science diplomat, working largely with UNESCO. During this time, he served at the first President of the SESAME Council.

James Gillies began his career as a research physicist at CERN before moving into science communication. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Leaving research in 1992 to take up the position of Head of Science at the British Council in Paris, he returned to CERN as a science writer in 1995, going on to head the Laboratory's communicaitons group from 2003 to 2015.


作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Herwig Franz Schopper在獲得漢堡大學博士學位後，先後在Erlangen、Mainz和Karlsruhe擔任職位，於1970年轉至CERN擔任核物理部門負責人。1973年，他返回漢堡，擔任DESY主任委員會主席，直到1981年成為CERN的總幹事。他在實驗室進行了重大組織變革，並建造了一個新的旗艦研究設施，即大型電子正子對撞機（LEP）。1989年退休後，Schopper教授開始了第二個科學外交生涯，主要與聯合國教科文組織合作。在此期間，他擔任了SESAME委員會的首任主席。

James Gillies在CERN擔任研究物理學家後，轉向科學傳播。他在牛津大學獲得博士學位。1992年離開研究，擔任英國文化協會巴黎辦事處的科學主管，並於1995年返回CERN擔任科學作家，並在2003年至2015年期間擔任實驗室的傳播組負責人。

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