Atomic histories / Rudolf E. Peierls.

Author
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Woodbury, N.Y. : AIP Press, ©1997.
Description
xvii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    Notes
    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Rudi Peierls
    • An Appreciation
    • 1. A Physicist's Portrait Gallery. Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, 1900-1958. Professor H.W.B. Skinner, F.R.S., 1900-1960. An Appreciation of Niels Bohr. Truth and Clarity. Rutherford and Bohr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967. The Growing Pains of Robert Oppenheimer. Heisenberg's Recollections. Werner Heisenberg, 1901-1976. A Heisenberg Biography. The Bomb That Never Was. A Physicist Who Enjoys It. Otto Robert Frisch, 1904-1979. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, 1902-1984. Dirac. Dirac's Way. Physics and Homi Bhabha. Two Mathematicians. Physicist Extraordinary. Landau in the 1930s. William George Penney, 1909-1991. Conservative Revolutionary. Recollections of James Chadwick. Bell's Early Work
    • II. Atomic Energy and Arms Control. The Frisch-Peierls Memorandum. Defence Against the Atom Bomb. Atomic Energy: Threat and Promise. Britain in the Atomic Age. Limited Nuclear War? Agonising Misappraisal. Reflections of a British Participant.
    ISBN
    • 1563962438 ((hardcover))
    • 9781563962431 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    96022298
    OCLC
    34906056
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