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ANALOGIES IN PHYSICS AND LIFE A Scientific Autobiography CONTENTS FRONT MATTER i Part I: THE WANDERING YEARS (1930–1974) — Section I: Czernowitz, a City of People and Books that No Longer Exists (1930–1945) Childhood Richard M Weiner 5 Politics — Premonition of War Richard M Weiner 21 War — The Ghetto Richard M Weiner 27 Part I: THE WANDERING YEARS (1930–1974) — Section II: Post-War Romania; The Isomeric Shift; Persona Non Grata (1945–1969) High School and University Richard M Weiner 33 The Isomeric Shift on Spectral Lines Richard M Weiner 47 Persona Non Grata Richard M Weiner 70 Challenging Conventional Wisdom in Particle Physics Richard M Weiner 84 Nazi-Communist Analogy Richard M Weiner 100 Part I: THE WANDERING YEARS (1930–1974) — Section III: Geneva, Bonn; Statistical Concepts in High-Energy Physics (1969–1974) CERN Richard M Weiner 107 Statistical Concepts in High-Energy Physics: Phase Transitions Richard M Weiner 123 Part I: THE WANDERING YEARS (1930–1974) — Section IV: Bonn, Bloomington (Indiana), London; Superfluidity of Hadronic Matter (1970–1974) Bonn Richard M Weiner 131 USA Richard M Weiner 138 London, Imperial College Richard M Weiner 151 Part II: SETTLING YEARS (1974–PRESENT) — Section V: Marburg; Hot Spots Professor at the Philipps University of Marburg Richard M Weiner 173 Hot Spots in “Elementary” Particles and in Nuclei Richard M Weiner 182 Part II: SETTLING YEARS (1974–PRESENT) — Section VI: Germany's Coping with the Past; The Hydrodynamical Analogy Rewriting History Richard M Weiner 197 From Superfluids to Fluids: The Hydrodynamical Analogy Applied to Multiparticle Production in Strong Interactions Richard M Weiner 210 Part II: SETTLING YEARS (1974–PRESENT) — Section VII: Einstein in Marburg; Solitons; The Auschwitz “Experiments” Einstein Criticized in a Marburg Colloquium Richard M Weiner 227 From Hot Spots to Solitons — On Revient Toujours au Vieil Amour Richard M Weiner 246 Caught Up Again by the Past Richard M Weiner 252 Part II: SETTLING YEARS (1974–PRESENT) — Section VIII: From Optics to Particle Physics; Traveling to the East Quantum Optical Analogies and Methods in Strong Interactions High-Energy Physics Richard M Weiner 259 Bose-Einstein Correlations Richard M Weiner 265 Order and Chaos Richard M Weiner 276 Traveling to the East Richard M Weiner 291 Part II: SETTLING YEARS (1974–PRESENT) — Section IX: From Germany to France; Quark-Gluon Plasma; A Literary Intermezzo; Reflections (1995–Present) Moving to Paris Richard M Weiner 297 France Versus Germany, Personal Impressions Richard M Weiner 300 Part II: SETTLING YEARS (1974–PRESENT) — Section X: Quark-Gluon Plasma; A Literary Intermezzo; Reflections Quark-Gluon Plasma, Another Old Love Richard M Weiner 327 Evidence for Quark-Gluon Plasma from Particle Physics Richard M Weiner 334 Evidence for Quark-Gluon Plasma from Heavy Ion Reactions Richard M Weiner 344 A Literary Intermezzo: The Mini-Atom Project Richard M Weiner 353 Reflections Richard M Weiner 356 BACK MATTER 366 Back

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