Bibliographic Details
| Author / Creator: | Reed, Bruce Cameron, author.
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| Imprint: | San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA): Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]
Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2015]
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| Description: | 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | [IOP release 2]
IOP concise physics, 2053-2571
IOP (Series). Release 2.
IOP concise physics.
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| Format: | E-Resource
Book
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11319894 |
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Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Story of the Manhattan Project : how nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer.
How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.
Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9781627059916
9781627059930
9781627059909
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| Notes: | "Version: 20140601"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in print.
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."
Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 1, 2015).
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| Summary: | This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the 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 in obtaining fissile uranium and plutonium, and in designing workable bombs, the dramatic Trinity test carried out in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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| Target Audience: | Senior high school/early undergraduate/trade with interest in science, history, and legacy of the Manhattan Project.
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| Other form: | Print version: 9781627059909
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| Standard no.: | 10.1088/978-1-6270-5991-6
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