A science career against all odds: a life of survival, study, teaching and travel in the 20th Century

This autobiography is written to follow the initially turbulent and seeminglyrandom path of education and life experiences of the author in the 1930s and 40s during the oppressive 3rd German Reich. This early childhood experiences made the author an undesirable student in the 1950s in the totalitarian German Democratic Republic, and ultimately brought him to the USA. Ideally prepared, he completed a first-rate education in record time, leading in 1965 to a tenured professorship in chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, specializing in research of the solid state of linear macromolecules (polymers, plastics). Early retirement in 1988 led to a new 20-year career as Professor and Distinguished Scientist at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The unforeseeable results of writing this book were the many links between Bernhard Wunderlich's love of teaching and research to the earliest experiences in his life. He would not want to miss or change anything. The complete list of publications and lectures is available online as electronic supplementary material on springerlink.com Intertwines the political circumstances in Europe before, during and after World War II and those later on in the USA with ascientific career Enough records were kept during all these years to reconstruct in this book the spirit of the times and, perhaps, show that many present day education and life experiences may be wanting INDICE: Early Childhood, 1931–1939.- Years of War, 1939–45.- Final Years in Brandenburg, 1945–49.- Humboldt University in Berlin, 1949–53.- Goethe University in Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany, 1953–54.- Study in the US, 1954–58.- Cornell University, 1958–63.- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1963–88.- University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Lab, 1988–2001.- Retirement, 2001.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-11195-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 560
• Fecha Publicación: 20/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés