Manuel Cardona: Memories and Reminiscences

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Manuel Cardona: Extraordinary Scientist, Teacher and Human Being—A View from Argentina....Pages 1-4
Playing with Symmetry and Other Memories....Pages 5-6
Manuel Cardona: Scientific Mentor, Man of Culture and Friend....Pages 7-9
Memories of Manuel Cardona by His Publisher Springer....Pages 11-11
Manuel Cardona, The Person....Pages 13-14
Manuel Cardona and His Relation to Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 15-17
How to Get Absolute Values from Relative Measurements....Pages 19-21
From My Postdoc at the “Abteilung Cardona”....Pages 23-27
Unforgettable Days at MPIF in Stuttgart....Pages 29-31
Manuel Cardona: Personal Recollections and Comments....Pages 33-34
Strong Coupling at Cardona’s Abteilung....Pages 35-43
A Personal View to the Figure of Manuel Cardona from a Few Disperse, Little Stories....Pages 45-48
Manuel to Walt....Pages 49-49
Manuel Cardona, a Distinguished Promoter of Solid State Physics in Latin America....Pages 51-57
Manuel Cardona, Isotopic Effects, and Path Integrals....Pages 59-61
Firma y Rúbrica....Pages 63-67
Isotopic Crystal Affairs: When I Was Cardona’s Last Crystal Grower....Pages 69-70
Thirteen Years with Manuel at the Max Planck Institute....Pages 71-74
My Memories of Manuel Cardona....Pages 75-76
Manuel Cardona: Some of My Recollections....Pages 77-78
How Manuel and Inge Changed Our Lives....Pages 79-82
The Teacher and Mentor I Almost Had....Pages 83-85
Loose Fingers Sink Ships—15 Years of E-mails from Manuel Cardona....Pages 87-92
Remembering Manuel Cardona....Pages 93-94
Manuel Cardona: Remembrances About a Great Master and Mentor....Pages 95-96
Because You Do not Send Me Bad Stuff to Consider…....Pages 97-100
My Recollections of Manuel Cardona, a Great Scientist....Pages 101-102
Manuel Cardona and the ALBA Synchrotron Light Source....Pages 103-104
Memories of Manuel Cardona....Pages 105-108
Manuel Cardona: Mentor, Colleague, Friend....Pages 109-110
From Semiconductor Quantum Wells and Superlattices to Paul Drude—Personal Recollections of Manuel Cardona from 1974 to 2014....Pages 111-113
Memories from Manuel Cardona from Spanish Speaking Countries....Pages 115-119
VUV Radiation Physics and Gaudeamus Igitur, Tokyo 1971....Pages 121-122
Manuel Cardona: Mentor, Friend, Teacher....Pages 123-124
Manuel Cardona: My Memories....Pages 125-126
Reminiscences of Stuttgart....Pages 127-130
An Unbiased Mentor Who Offered Freedom and Equality to Young Scientists: Prof. Manuel Cardona....Pages 131-135
Recollections of the Cardonas in Japan and in Stuttgart....Pages 137-141
Manuel Cardona and the Story of Highly Enriched 28Si....Pages 143-151
Interactions....Pages 153-155
Manuel Cardona....Pages 157-158
All I Really Need to Know About Semiconductors, Research and More, I Learned as a Graduate Student of Cardona....Pages 159-161
Ten Years with Manuel: 1989–1999....Pages 163-166
Interactions of Theory and Experiment in Raman Scattering....Pages 167-169
Manuel Cardona’s Contributions to Semiconductor Technology: A View from Industrial and Applied Physics....Pages 171-174