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PRIMARY FOCUS: Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb.

 
Robert Oppenheimer - Letters and Recollections

Editors: Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner
Format: Paperback. Size: about 15.2cm W x 22.8cm H x 2.6cm T. Pages: xxiii + 376. Bibliography. Index.
Publisher: Stanford University Press.
ISBN: 0-8047-2620-5
Copyright: © 1980 by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner
Status: Out of stock.

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REAR COVER:

ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (1904-1967) is one of the few American scientists who have become public - and controversial - figures in the twentieth century. This book adds a new dimension to the Oppenheimer story by offering a look at the private man behind the public figure. It consists of letters spanning the period from his Harvard student days in 1922 to his departure from Los Alamos in 1945. The letters are supplemented by recollections of those who knew Oppenheimer and by his own recollections from an interview a few years before his death.
 
"A beautifully organized collection of letters and reminiscences ... The editors have interviewed those who knew and worked with him, stirred in the necessary explanatory background, and produced an account, both scholarly and highly readable, which throws fresh light on a man who will probably always remain something of an enigma. Amid devotional defense and almost rabid attack, their book is a model of objectivity." - New York Times Book Review
 
"An intimate, carefully documented, and honest book." - Scientific American
 
"The first scholarly attempt to come to grips with the development of Oppenheimer's elusive personality; it is all the more impressive because its many revealing letters and candid commentary were gathered from those who knew him best." - Science
 
"The editors have done a superb job in putting this material together and making it into a coherent narrative .... A mine of information for historians interested in Oppenheimer and his times, this volume also offers much new insight into his character." - New Republic
 


 
Alice Kimball Smith is Dean Emeritus of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 
Charles Weiner is Professor of History Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 


 
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PRIMARY FOCUS: Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. (Both Einstein and this book's author were awarded a Nobel Prize for physics)

 
Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Author: Max Born
Format: Paperback. Plain white endpapers. Size: about 13.8cm W x 20.3cm H x 2.3cm T. Pages: vii + 376. Index.
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc. New York. © 1965.
SBN: 486-60769-0
Status: Second-hand. Stock available: one copy.

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FRONT COVER:
 
Revised Edition prepared with the collaboration of Günther Leibfried and Walter Biem.
 
REAR COVER:
 
A book in which one great mind explains the work of another great mind in terms comprehensible to the layman is a significant achievement. This is such a book. Max Born is a Nobel Laureate (1955) and one of the world's great physicists: in this book he analyzes and interprets the theory of Einsteinian relativity. The result is undoubtedly the most lucid and insightful of all the books that have been written to explain the revolutionary theory that marked the end of the classical and the beginning of the modern era of physics.
 
The author follows a quasi-historical method of presentation. The book begins with a review of the classical physics, covering such topics as origins of space and time measurements, geometric axioms, Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy, concepts of equilibrium and force, laws of motion, inertia, mass, momentum and energy, Newtonian world system (absolute space and absolute time, gravitation, celestial mechanics, centrifugal forces and absolute space), laws of optics (the corpuscular and undulatory theories, speed of light, wave theory, Doppler effect, convection of light by matter), electrodynamics (including magnetic induction, electromagnetic theory of light, electromagnetic ether, electromagnetic laws of moving bodies, electromagnetic mass, and the contraction hypothesis). Born then takes up his exposition of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, discussing the concept of simultaneity, kinematics, Einstein's mechanics and dynamics, relativity of arbitrary motions, the principle of equivalence, the geometry of curved surfaces, and the space-time continuum, among other topics. Born then points out some predictions of the theory of relativity and its implications for cosmology, and indicates what is being sought in the unified field theory.
 
This account steers a middle course between vague popularizations and complex scientific presentations. This is a careful discussion of principles stated in thoroughly acceptable scientific form, yet in a manner that makes it possible for the reader who has no scientific training to understand it. Only high school algebra has been used in explaining the nature of classical physics and relativity, and simple experiments and diagrams are used to illustrate each step. The layman and the beginning student in physics will find this an immensely valuable and usable introduction to relativity.
 
This new Dover 1962 edition has been greatly revised and enlarged by Dr. Born, to cover modern developments.

 


 
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PRIMARY FOCUS: Otto Frisch, nuclear physics

 
What Little I Remember

Author: Otto Frisch
Format: Paperback. Plain white endpapers. Size: about 13.5cm W x 21.6cm H x 1.9cm T. Pages: xi + 227. Bibliography. Index.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Copyright: Cambridge University Press © 1979
Published: 1991
ISBN: 0-521-40583-1
Status: Second-hand. Stock available: one copy

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Otto Frisch took part in some of the most momentous developments in modern physics, notably the discovery of nuclear fission (a term which he coined). His work on the first atom bomb, which he saw explode in the desert 'like the light of a thousand suns', brought him into contact with figures such as Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman and the father of electronic computers, John von Neumann. He also encountered the physicists who had made the great discoveries of recent generations: Einstein, Rutherford and Niels Bohr. This characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century, illustrated with a series of fascinating photographs and witty sketches by the author himself.
 
'In writing a charming, light-hearted cameo of his life and times as a scientist, Professor Frisch has revealed more about science than many authors with greater pretensions. This is a book that deserves to be read, and will be enjoyed, by a wide audience.' The Economist.
 
'Despite his modest title, what Frisch "manages to remember" is quite impressive. He loved to tell stories and his many vignettes 0f his associates . . . include nearly every outstanding physicist who worked in nuclear physics.' Science


 

 
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PRIMARY FOCUS: Richard Feynman and his contribution to modern physics

 
Genius - Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

Author: James Gleick © 1992. Reprinted 2003.
Format: Paper. Size: about 12.6cm W x 19.7cm H x 3.5cm T. Pages: x + 532. Bibliography. Feynman Bibliography. Index.
Publisher: Abacus Books, London.
ISBN: 0-349-10532-4
Status: New. Stock available.

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REAR COVER: Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission, ebullient bongo-player and storyteller - Feynman played a bewildering assortment of roles in the science of the post-war era.
 
Genius is a brilliant interweaving of Richard Feynman's colourful life and a detailed and accessible account of his theories and experiments - nearly half a century of which amount to no less than the story of modern physics itself
 
'Excellent... Gleick's account fully deserves its title'
Guardian, U.K.
 
'When I embarked on Mr Gleick's book I expected that it would give me a headache, make me laugh and leave me stunned by a fuller appreciation of its subject's gifts. All of these expectations were amply fulfilled'
John Naughton, Observer, U.K.
 
'Feynman said he had never read a scientific biography he liked. I feel close to certain that he would have changed his mind had he lived to read this one'
Christopher Potter, Spectator, U.K.
 
'A rich narrative that mixes science with fly-on-the-wall detail'
Independent On Sunday (U.K.)


 

 
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