The Resource Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age, Amir D. Aczel
Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age, Amir D. Aczel
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- Summary
- "Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom - the most controversial type of energy ever discovered. Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the story of the fierce competition among the day's top scientists to harness nuclear power. The intensely driven Marie Curie identified radioactivity. The University of Berlin team of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner--he an upright, politically conservative German chemist and she a soft-spoken Austrian Jewish theoretical physicist--achieved the most spectacular discoveries in fission. Curie's daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, raced against Meitner and Hahn to break the secret of the splitting of the atom. As the war raged, Niels Bohr, a founder of modern physics, had a dramatic meeting with Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist in charge of the Nazi project to beat the Allies to the bomb. And finally, in 1942, Enrico Fermi, a prodigy from Rome who had fled the war to the United States, unleashed the first nuclear chain reaction in a racquetball court at the University of Chicago." -- Book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Physics and uranium
- On the trail of the nucleus
- Lisa Meitner
- The Meitner-Hahn discovery
- Enrico Fermi
- The Rome experiments
- The events of 1938
- Christmas 1938
- The Heisenberg menace
- Chain reaction
- The Nazi nuclear machine
- Copenhagen
- The moment of truth
- Building the bomb
- The decision to use the bomb
- Evidence from a spying operation
- The Cold War
- Uranium's future
- Isbn
- 9780230613744
- Label
- Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age
- Title
- Uranium wars
- Title remainder
- the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age
- Statement of responsibility
- Amir D. Aczel
- Title variation
- Scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age
- Subject
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- Nuclear energy -- Research | History -- 20th century
- trueNuclear physicists
- trueNuclear physics -- History
- Nuclear physics -- Research | History -- 20th century
- trueNuclear power
- trueNuclear power -- History
- trueNuclear weapons -- Research | History
- Nuclear weapons -- Research | History -- 20th century
- Science and state -- History -- 20th century
- trueScience policy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom - the most controversial type of energy ever discovered. Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the story of the fierce competition among the day's top scientists to harness nuclear power. The intensely driven Marie Curie identified radioactivity. The University of Berlin team of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner--he an upright, politically conservative German chemist and she a soft-spoken Austrian Jewish theoretical physicist--achieved the most spectacular discoveries in fission. Curie's daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, raced against Meitner and Hahn to break the secret of the splitting of the atom. As the war raged, Niels Bohr, a founder of modern physics, had a dramatic meeting with Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist in charge of the Nazi project to beat the Allies to the bomb. And finally, in 1942, Enrico Fermi, a prodigy from Rome who had fled the war to the United States, unleashed the first nuclear chain reaction in a racquetball court at the University of Chicago." -- Book jacket
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- 328941
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Aczel, Amir D
- Dewey number
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- 621.4809
- 539.7
- 621.48
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- Nuclear weapons
- Nuclear physics
- Nuclear energy
- Science and state
- Uranium as fuel
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- the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age
- Label
- Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age, Amir D. Aczel
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-239) and index
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- Contents
- Physics and uranium -- On the trail of the nucleus -- Lisa Meitner -- The Meitner-Hahn discovery -- Enrico Fermi -- The Rome experiments -- The events of 1938 -- Christmas 1938 -- The Heisenberg menace -- Chain reaction -- The Nazi nuclear machine -- Copenhagen -- The moment of truth -- Building the bomb -- The decision to use the bomb -- Evidence from a spying operation -- The Cold War -- Uranium's future
- Control code
- 777197
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780230613744
- Lccn
- 2009007276
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
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- Other physical details
- illustrations
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- (Sirsi) i9780230613744
- (OCoLC)311074963
- Label
- Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age, Amir D. Aczel
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-239) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- Contents
- Physics and uranium -- On the trail of the nucleus -- Lisa Meitner -- The Meitner-Hahn discovery -- Enrico Fermi -- The Rome experiments -- The events of 1938 -- Christmas 1938 -- The Heisenberg menace -- Chain reaction -- The Nazi nuclear machine -- Copenhagen -- The moment of truth -- Building the bomb -- The decision to use the bomb -- Evidence from a spying operation -- The Cold War -- Uranium's future
- Control code
- 777197
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780230613744
- Lccn
- 2009007276
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780230613744
- (OCoLC)311074963
Subject
- trueUranium as fuel -- History -- 20th century
- Nuclear energy -- Research | History -- 20th century
- trueNuclear physicists
- trueNuclear physics -- History
- Nuclear physics -- Research | History -- 20th century
- trueNuclear power
- trueNuclear power -- History
- trueNuclear weapons -- Research | History
- Nuclear weapons -- Research | History -- 20th century
- Science and state -- History -- 20th century
- trueScience policy
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