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Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age
- Title
- Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age / Amir D. Aczel.
- Author
- Aczel, Amir D.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- 248 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-239) and index.
- Contents
- Physics and uranium -- On the trail of the nucleus -- Lisa Meitner -- The Meitner-Hahn discovery -- Enrico Fermi -- The Rome experiments -- The events of 1938 -- Christmas 1938 -- The Heisenberg menace -- Chain reaction -- The Nazi nuclear machine -- Copenhagen -- The moment of truth -- Building the bomb -- The decision to use the bomb -- Evidence from a spying operation -- The Cold War -- Uranium's future.
- Call Number
- JSE 13-92
- ISBN
- 0230613748
- 9780230613744
- LCCN
- 2009007276
- OCLC
- 311074963
- Author
- Aczel, Amir D.
- Title
- Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age / Amir D. Aczel.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-239) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 13-92