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Uncertainty : the life and science of Werner Heisenberg
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ISBN: 0716722437 9780716722434 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York, NY : W. H. Freeman,


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Farm Hall and the German Atomic Project of World War II : A Dramatic History
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ISBN: 3319595784 3319595776 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II. It is also an "eye-witness" account of the dawning of the nuclear age, with the dialogue and narrative spanning the period before, during and after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan at the end of the war. This pivotal historical episode is conveyed, along with the emotions as well as the facts, through drama, historical narrative, and photographs of the captive German nuclear scientists - who included Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, and Max von Laue. The unique story that unfolds in the play is based on secretly recorded transcripts of the scientists’ actual conversations at Farm Hall, together with related documents and photographs.


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A short history of physics in the American century
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ISBN: 0674062744 9780674062740 9780674049369 0674049365 9780674049369 0674049365 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

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As the twentieth century drew to a close, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the advances in physics underlying these applications are poorly understood and widely underappreciated by U.S. citizens today. In this concise overview, David C. Cassidy sharpens our perspective on modern physics by viewing this foundational science through the lens of America's engagement with the political events of a tumultuous century. American physics first stirred in the 1890's-around the time x-rays and radioactivity were discovered in Germany-with the founding of graduate schools on the German model. Yet American research lagged behind the great European laboratories until highly effective domestic policies, together with the exodus of physicists from fascist countries, brought the nation into the first ranks of world research in the 1930's. The creation of the atomic bomb and radar during World War II ensured lavish government support for particle physics, along with computation, solid-state physics, and military communication. These advances facilitated space exploration and led to the global expansion of the Internet. Well into the 1960's, physicists bolstered the United States' international status, and the nation repaid the favor through massive outlays of federal, military, and philanthropic funding. But gradually America relinquished its postwar commitment to scientific leadership, and the nation found itself struggling to maintain a competitive edge in science education and research. Today, American physicists, relying primarily on industrial funding, must compete with smaller, scrappier nations intent on writing their own brief history of physics in the twenty-first century.

Uncertainty: the life and science of Werner Heisenberg
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ISBN: 9780716725039 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Freeman

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Farm hall and the German atomic project of World War II : a dramatic history
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ISBN: 9783319595771 9783319595788 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham Springer

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This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II. It is also an "eye-witness" account of the dawning of the nuclear age, with the dialogue and narrative spanning the period before, during and after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan at the end of the war. This pivotal historical episode is conveyed, along with the emotions as well as the facts, through drama, historical narrative, and photographs of the captive German nuclear scientists - who included Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, and Max von Laue. The unique story that unfolds in the play is based on secretly recorded transcripts of the scientists’ actual conversations at Farm Hall, together with related documents and photographs.


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Time machines
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ISBN: 9783777440415 3777440418 Year: 2011 Publisher: Munich Hirmer Verlag

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Year: 1987 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Relativity : the special and general theory
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ISBN: 0131862618 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Pi Press,

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Einstein's wife : the real story of Mileva Einstein-Marić
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ISBN: 9780262538978 9780262039611 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, Ma : MIT PRESS,

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