UID:
almafu_9959226535502883
Format:
1 online resource (121 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-028354-8
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1-280-60299-6
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9786610602995
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0-19-802783-4
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1-4237-4196-X
Series Statement:
Oxford portraits in science
Content:
A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission, the basis of nuclear power and the atom bomb.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""Contents""; ""Chapter 1: Born in a Revolution""; ""Chapter 2: Early Promise Fulfilled""; ""Sidebar: Fermi-Dirac Statistics: Helping Explain the World""; ""Chapter 3: The Road to a Nobel Prize""; ""Sidebar: Heisenberg�s Matrix Mechanics""; ""Sidebar: The Nuclear Reactions That Won a Nobel Prize""; ""Chapter 4: Racing to a Chain Reaction""; ""Chapter 5: Los Alamos and the A-Bomb""; ""Chapter 6: Science in Chicago, Service in Washington""; ""Chapter 7: A Great Man Honored and Remembered""; ""Chronology""; ""Further Reading""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""
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""I""""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-511762-X
Language:
English
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