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The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics Between the First and Second World Wars

By Roger H. Stuewer

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
0198827873, 9780198827870
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32895269 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
484 pp\501
Topic
History
Time added
2019-05-23 23:31:37
First And Second World WarsNuclear Physics

Description

The two decades between the first and second world wars saw the emergence of nuclear physics as the dominant field of experimental and theoretical physics, owing to the work of an international cast of gifted physicists. Prominent among them were Ernest Rutherford, George Gamow, the husband and wife team of Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, Gregory Breit and Eugene Wigner, Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, the brash Ernest Lawrence, the prodigious Enrico Fermi, and the incomparable Niels Bohr.

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