Description
Introduction and Overview.- A Short History of Nuclear Physics to the Mid-1930s.- The Discovery and Interpretation of Nuclear Fission.- Organizing the Manhattan Project, 1939-1943.- Oak Ridge, CP-1, and the Clinton Engineer Works.- The Hanford Engineer Works.- Los Alamos, Trinity, and Tinian.- Hiroshima and Nagasaki.- The German Nuclear Program.- The Legacy of Manhattan.- Glossary.- Index.
Author: Bruce Cameron Reed
Publisher: Springer
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 538
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9783662581742
ISBN10: 3662581744
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics | Nuclear
- Science | Chemistry | Industrial & Technical
Author: Bruce Cameron Reed
Publisher: Springer
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 538
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9783662581742
ISBN10: 3662581744
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics | Nuclear
- Science | Chemistry | Industrial & Technical
About the Author
The author holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and has published over 30 technical and semi-popular-level papers on the Manhattan Project and related nuclear history in publications such as American Journal of Physics, The Physics Teacher, European Journal of Physics, Natural Science, American Scientist, Physics & Society and Physics in Perspective. In 2009 he was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his contributions " ... to the history of both the physics and the development of nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project."