Book ID: CBB000830505

Sir Rudolf Peierls: Selected Private and Scientific Correspondence, Volume 1 (2007)

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Peierls, Rudolf Ernst (Author)
Lee, Sabine (Editor)


World Scientific


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: 880 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Covers 1922-1945, containing family correspondence as well as correspondence relating to quantum physics and the development of nuclear weapons. Includes background on social, political and scientific context of the letters.


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Authors & Contributors
Olson, Steve
Artin, Tom
Zangwill, Andrew
Williams, J. S.
Wellerstein, Alex
Teta, Alessandro
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Perspectives on Science
Historical Records of Australian Science
Foundations of Chemistry
European Physical Journal H
Publishers
Springer
World Scientific
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of Chicago Press
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Quantum mechanics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Molecular and solid state physics
Biographies
People
Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm
Peierls, Rudolph Ernst
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
Seaborg, Glenn T.
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
England
Germany
Polar regions
Italy
Canada
Institutions
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen
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