Book ID: CBB000640787

The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006)

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Hargittai, István (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xxiv + 313 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description About Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller.


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Authors & Contributors
Hargittai, István
Bernstein, Jeremy
Borrelli, Arianna
Dyson, Freeman J.
Eckert, Michael
Frank, Tibor
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
American Journal of Physics
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Publishers
Berzsenyi College
Birkhäuser
Guaraldi
Harvard University Press
Henry Holt
Kluwer Academic
Concepts
Physics
Biographies
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Quantum mechanics
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
People
Von Neumann, John
Wigner, Eugene Paul
Teller, Edward
Szilard, Leo
Einstein, Albert
Kármán, Theodor von
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Hungary
Israel
Soviet Union
Europe
Germany
Institutions
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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