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Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler's Atom Bomb
Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler's Atom Bomb
Calmthout, Martijn van;Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham;Horn, Michiel
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"The first biography in English of a leading Dutch American physicist, who discovered the subatomic property of "spin" and spearheaded the search for Hitler's atom bomb as World War II came to an end"--;Prologue: A home stripped bare : The Hague, September 1945 -- Nothing to lose as yet : Leiden, September 1927 -- Appeals and Zeeman's chair : Michigan, 1933-1940 -- The shadow of war : Boston, 1941-1944 -- Hitler's atom bomb : Paris, 1944 -- Uranium and heavy water : Germany, 1944-1945 -- The truth of Kistemaker : Amsterdam, 1960-1961 -- Heisenberg's version : Cambridge, 1945-1973 -- Sam's Cold War : Brookhaven, 1947-1978 -- Under the spell of the scarab : Leiden-Nevada, 1925-1978.
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Year:
2018
Publisher:
Prometheus Books
Language:
English
Pages:
243 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
ISBN 10:
1633884511
ISBN 13:
9781633884519
ISBN:
9781633884502,9781633884519,1633884511
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