Lise Meitner and the dawn of the nuclear age / Patricia Rife ; foreword by John Archibal Wheeler.
Pubblicazione:
Boston : Birkhäuser, c1999.
Descrizione fisica:
XVIII, 432 p., [20] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Foreword / by John Archibald Wheeler. Introduction. 1. Choosing the path of physics (1878-1906) 2. Berlin (1907-1909) 3. New explorations at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (1909-1914) 4. World War I and its consequences (194-1920) 5. Shadows lengthen: the struggle out of the causal chain (1920-1932) 6. Science in Nazi Germany (1933-1936) 7. The Transuranic maze (1934-1938) 8. Escape from Nazi Germany (1938) 9. The discovery and interpretation of fission (1938) 10. The news of fission spreads (1939) 11. Chain reaction and the dawn of the nuclear age (1939) 12. Secrecy and code names: war research surronding nuclear fission (1939-1942) 13. The dark days of war (1941-1945) 14. The atomic bomb, a trip to Washington and the Nobel Prize controversy (1945-1946). Epilogue: What scientists will make of this newly found knowledge (1947-1968). Journals and periodicals. Endnotes. Chronology. List of awards and honours. Publications by Lise Meitner. Bibliography. Index. Permissions. Acknowledgments
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