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Xii, 290 Pp. Turquoise Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Fine, No Marks, Gilt Brilliant. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75, Slight Usage. Dust Jacket Blurbs By William O. Douglas, Robert M. Hutchins, Paul B. Sears, Harold C. Urey, Albert Einstein, H. J. Muller; Brown Was An Outstanding Scientist Himself; But Few World Politicians Or Business Leaders (1946 To Present) Ever Tried To Seriously Address These Issues, Apparently Because They're Not There Primarily For The General Welfare. Harrison Scott Brown ( 1917 – 1986) Was An American Nuclear Chemist And Geochemist. He Was A Political Activist, Who Lectured And Wrote On The Issues Of Arms Limitation, Natural Resources And World Hunger. During World War Ii, Brown Worked At The Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory And Clinton Engineer Works, Where He Worked On Ways To Separate Plutonium From Uranium. The Techniques He Helped Develop Were Used At The Hanford Site To Produce The Plutonium Used In The Fat Man Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki. After The War He Lectured On The Dangers Of Nuclear Weapons. After The War, He Worked At The University Of Chicago, Where He Pioneered Nuclear Geochemistry. The Study Of Meteorites By Brown And His Students Led To The First Close Approximation Of The Age Of The Earth And The Solar System. In 1948 Brown Was Awarded The American Association For The Advancement Of Science Prize For His Work On Meteorites.Between 1951 And 1977, He Worked At The California Institute Of Technology (Caltech) Where He Contributed To Advances In Telescopic Instrumentation, Jet Propulsion, And Infrared Astronomy. While There He Attracted Several Former Colleagues And Highly Regarded Scientists To The Team. Together They Made Advancements In Telescopic Instrumentation, Jet Propulsion (Contributing To Nasa's Early Planetary Exploration Missions), And Infrared Astronomy. In June 1954 He Was One Of Twenty Scientists Under The Age Of Forty Identified By Fortune Magazine As "Top Young Scientists In U. S. Universities And Industry". In The Early 1970S, He Began Working More Directly On The Resource/Environment Issues That He Had Been Developing In His Books. In 1977, He Became Director Of The Newly Created Resource Systems Institute Of The East-West Center In Hawaii Where He Turned Full Time To Work On Understanding And Influencing The Interactions Of Energy, Mineral, And Food Systems In The Asia-Pacific Region, Themes He Had Developed In His Books Since The 1950S.…

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Titre
The Challenge Of Man's Future
Auteur
Brown, Harrison; Dust Jacket Blurbs By William O. Douglas, Robert M. Hutchins, Paul B. Sears, Harold C. Urey, Albert Einstein, H. J. Muller
Éditeur
Viking, New York
Année de publication
1954
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
Very Good + Jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Édition
1st Edition
Impression
1st Printing
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Economics and Business, Science (general)

Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA

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