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An enigma for all seasons

机译：所有季节的谜

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According to Mark Twain, "Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man ― the biography of the man himself cannot be written." Yet with so puzzling a subject as Frederick Lindemann, attempting to portray "the man himself" is difficult to resist. In the world of science he was exceptional, and in the world at war his power was as great as that of any scientist in history. But he could also be reticent and reclusive. Although former associates remember him well, to many others Lindemann remains, as was said of him recently, "the most important man you have never heard of". Lindemann's cherished homeland was England, but his scientific education and early research took place in Germany, where he worked successfully on thermodynamic problems with Walther Nernst in Berlin. In 1911, aged just 25, Lindemann took part in conference discussions with all those scientists whose names were so prominent in the evolution of modern physics, including H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie. Back in England during the First World War, he turned his experimental skill to warplanes, which he learned to fly to prove his theoretical method of recovering from an aircraft spin. And then in 1919, as professor of physics at Oxford University, he began the major task of recreating the Clarendon Laboratory's teaching and research facilities.
机译：根据马克·吐温（Mark Twain）的说法，“传记不过是男人的衣服和纽扣-不能写男人本人的传记。”然而，像弗雷德里克·林德曼（Frederick Lindemann）这样令人困惑的话题，试图描绘“男人自己”是很难抗拒的。在科学界，他是杰出的，在战争中，他的力量与历史上任何科学家一样大。但是他也可能会沉默寡言。尽管前同事对他记忆犹新，但正如最近对他所说的那样，林德曼仍然对许多人来说是“你从未听说过的最重要的人”。 Lindemann珍爱的祖国是英国，但他的科学教育和早期研究是在德国进行的，在那里他与柏林的Walther Nernst成功地解决了热力学问题。 1911年，年仅25岁的林德曼（Lindemann）与所有在现代物理学的发展中举世闻名的科学家参加了会议讨论，包括H. A. Lorentz，Max Planck，Albert Einstein，Ernest Rutherford和Marie Curie。第一次世界大战期间，他回到英格兰，将实验技能转向了战机，他学会了飞行，以证明自己从飞机旋转中恢复的理论方法。然后在1919年，作为牛津大学的物理学教授，他开始了重建克拉伦登实验室教学和研究设施的主要任务。

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    《Nature》 |2003年第6960期|p.770-771|共2页
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    Stuart Young;

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    Box 4, Noordhoek 7985, South Africa;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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