Author: Peierls, Rudolf E.
Title: Atomic histories.
Description: Woodbury, N.Y. : AIP Press, 1997. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xvii, 378 pp. illustrations ; 25 cm. (Masters of modern physics, 18). English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. 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 9781563962431.

Keywords: HISTORY OF SCIENCE, physics