Nuclear dawn : F.E. Simon and the race for atomic weapons in World War II /

A biography of the experimental physicist Franz Simon, describing his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics. This volume is distinctive for using new source materials and the broad setting of five competing nuclear programmes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McRae, Kenneth D. (Kenneth Douglas) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Simon, F. E. > (Francis Eugene), > 1893-1956.
Simon, F. E. > (Francis Eugene), > 1893-1956
Nuclear weapons.
Armes nucléaires.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Nuclear weapons
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Growing up into a world at war
  • Berlin 1919-1930
  • Breslau 1931-1933
  • Oxford 1933-1939
  • Any capable physicist 1939-1941
  • Industrial plants ... heretofore deemed impossible 1942-1945
  • Why Manhattan?
  • Something reasonable again
  • Security lapses
  • Germany in the balance
  • A rounded life
  • Appendix : Simon's report to Perrin about Heisenberg, 11 March 1948.

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