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The Age of Innocence - Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,264
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The Age of Innocence - Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars (Hardcover): Roger H. Stuewer

The Age of Innocence - Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars (Hardcover)

Roger H. Stuewer

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The two decades between the first and second world wars saw the emergence of nuclear physics as the dominant field of experimental and theoretical physics, owing to the work of an international cast of gifted physicists. Prominent among them were Ernest Rutherford, George Gamow, the husband and wife team of Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, Gregory Breit and Eugene Wigner, Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, the brash Ernest Lawrence, the prodigious Enrico Fermi, and the incomparable Niels Bohr. Their experimental and theoretical work arose from a quest to understand nuclear phenomena; it was not motivated by a desire to find a practical application for nuclear energy. In this sense, these physicists lived in an 'Age of Innocence'. They did not, however, live in isolation. Their research reflected their idiosyncratic personalities; it was shaped by the physical and intellectual environments of the countries and institutions in which they worked. It was also buffeted by the political upheavals after the Great War: the punitive postwar treaties, the runaway inflation in Germany and Austria, the Great Depression, and the intellectual migration from Germany and later from Austria and Italy. Their pioneering experimental and theoretical achievements in the interwar period therefore are set within their personal, institutional, and political contexts. Both domains and their mutual influences are conveyed by quotations from autobiographies, biographies, recollections, interviews, correspondence, and other writings of physicists and historians.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2018
Authors: Roger H. Stuewer (Professor Emeritus)
Dimensions: 248 x 176 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-882787-0
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Nuclear structure physics
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > First World War
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > First World War
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
LSN: 0-19-882787-3
Barcode: 9780198827870

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