Book ID: CBB000101132

Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (2001)

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Teller, Edward (Author)
Shoolery, Judith (Author)


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Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xii + 628 pp., illus., bibl., app., index
Language: English

Description Teller (b. 1908) chronicles the people and events that shaped him as a scientist.


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Review Finn, John T. (2002) Review of "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". Nature (p. 735). unapi

Review Dyson, Freeman J. (2002) Review of "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". American Journal of Physics (p. 462). unapi

Review Thorpe, Charles (2003) Review of "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 250). unapi

Review Wattenberg, Albert (2003) Review of "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". Physics in Perspective (p. 349). unapi

Review Wang, Zuoyue (2003) Review of "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 419). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kelly, Cynthia C.
Hargittai, István
Cioci, Vincenzo
Hoerlin, Bettina
Alberto Bentoglio
Lynn R. Sykes
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Encyclopedia of the History of Science
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Diplomatic History
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Publishers
Pavia University Press
World Scientific
Raffaello Cortina Editore
University of New Mexico Press
University of California Press
Springer
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Physics
Manhattan Project
Science and politics
Biographies
Science and war; science and the military
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Teller, Edward
Lynn R. Sykes
Smyth, Henry De Wolf
York, Herbert Frank
Wigner, Eugene Paul
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Italy
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Milan (Italy)
Ohio (U.S.)
Japan
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
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