My Life and Science

Abstract

In this article, I tried to compress the events of my long life and scientific career into a readable manuscript. The choice of scientific problems in development of which I was involved and people with whom I contacted naturally is not complete. I hope, however, that my selection more or less correctly reflects my teaching activity and my participation in the enormous progress of quantum mechanics, statistical physics, and condensed matter physics in the second part of the previous and in the beginning of the current century.