The History and Science of the Manhattan Project
Reed, Bruce Cameron
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2019-03-01
- 售價: $3,940
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,743
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 538
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3662581744
- ISBN-13: 9783662581742
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商品描述
Introduction and Overview.- A Short History of Nuclear Physics to the Mid-1930s.- The Discovery and Interpretation of Nuclear Fission.- Organizing the Manhattan Project, 1939-1943.- Oak Ridge, CP-1, and the Clinton Engineer Works.- The Hanford Engineer Works.- Los Alamos, Trinity, and Tinian.- Hiroshima and Nagasaki.- The German Nuclear Program.- The Legacy of Manhattan.- Glossary.- Index.
作者簡介
The author holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and has published over 30 technical and semi-popular-level papers on the Manhattan Project and related nuclear history in publications such as American Journal of Physics, The Physics Teacher, European Journal of Physics, Natural Science, American Scientist, Physics & Society and Physics in Perspective. In 2009 he was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his contributions " ... to the history of both the physics and the development of nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project."
