Herwig Schopper : scientist and diplomat in a changing world

• Main Authors: Schopper, Herwig, Gillies, James
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer 2024; Springer Nature; Springer International Publishing; Springer International Publishing AG
• Edition: 1
• Series: Springer Biographies
• Subjects: Biografie gnd-content; Biography and non-fiction prose; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; Biography: general; Biography: science, technology and medicine; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY); Directors-General of CERN; Discovery of the Z and W particles; Education; Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP); Mathematics and Science; Particle accelerators; Particle and high-energy physics; Particles (Nuclear physics); Physicists; Physics; SCIENCE; Science: general issues; SESAME; Society and Social Sciences; Teaching of a specific subject; UNESCO Basic Science Programme

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, CE...