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[Oppenheimer] Davis

LAWRENCE AND OPPENHEIMER

Simon and Schuster, 1968

82,50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, États-Unis d'Amérique)

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Metodi di Pagamento

Dettagli

Année
1968
Lieu d'édition
New York
Auteur
[Oppenheimer] Davis
Éditeurs
Simon and Schuster

Descrizione

First Edition, third printing. 8vo, publisher's original light gray cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original illustrated dustjacket. 384 pp. The book very fine in a handsome dustjacket with minor edgewear.

Edizione: a fine copy. the fateful story of earnest lawrence and robert oppenheimer - the two giants+6 of twentieth-century american physics - whose association began in productive harmony, climaxed in world-shattering achievement, and ended in rancor that split the nation's scientific community and swayed the entire course of united states atomic policy.<br> in lawrence and oppenheimer, davis writes not of abstract science but of the ambitions, tensions, insights and clashing values of proud and brilliant men. a collective portrait of modern man on the brink of cataclysm, this is a book for the nonscientist as well as for readers steeped in the technology of the age.
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