Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project - Couverture souple

Reed, Bruce Cameron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1627059903 ISBN 13 : 9781627059909

Editeur : Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences, 2015

Synopsis

This book gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the Manhattan Project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons possible, how the project was organized, the daunting challenges faced and overcome, the dramatic Trinity test carried out in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

B Cameron Reed is the Charles A Dana Professor of Physics at Alma College, Alma, Michigan. In addition to a quantum mechanics text and two other books on the Manhattan Project, he has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals in areas such as astronomy, data analysis, quantum physics, nuclear physics, and the history of physics. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, "For his contributions to the history of both the physics and the development of nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1627059903
• ISBN 13: 9781627059909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 142
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• Personne responsable: non disponible