Herbert Fröhlich: A Physicist Ahead of His Time

Abstract

Mott’s biographical essay about Fröhlich was published in the November 1992 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. In the essay’s acknowledgment, Mott noted that Fröhlich’s last PhD student, Gerard Hyland, was “responsible for part of the section on nuclear forces and for the list of publications.” Hyland’s new scientific biography, Herbert Fröhlich: A Physicist Ahead of His Time, takes off from Mott’s memoir. Hyland has greatly expanded on the earlier work, drawing extensively on his own interactions and interviews with Fröhlich and on interviews with Fröhlich’s widow and brother.