Nuclear Dawn by McRae, Kenneth D.

Nuclear Dawn (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199687183)

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Nuclear Dawn by McRae, Kenneth D.

Nuclear Dawn

$61.00
Nuclear Dawn by McRae, Kenneth D.

Nuclear Dawn

$61.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero. After 1939 he switched his research to nuclear physics, and is credited with solving the problem of uranium isotope separation by gaseous diffusion for the British nuclear programme Tube Alloys.

The volume is distinctive for its inclusion of source materials not available to previous researchers, such as Simon's diary and his correspondence with his wife, and for a fresh, well-informed insider voice on the five-power nuclear rivalry of the war years.

The work also draws on a relatively mature nuclear literature to attempt a comparison and evaluation of the five nuclear rivals in wider political and military context, and to identify the factors, or groups of factors, that can explain the results.

Author: Kenneth D. McRae
ISBN-10: 0199687188
ISBN-13: 9780199687183
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2014
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d
By Kenneth D. McRae
By Kenneth D. McRae
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Kenneth D. McRae is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. He has written or edited seven other volumes, including monographs on selected West European democracies (Belgium, Finland, Switzerland) and a volume of readings in the same area.

He is a son-in-law of Sir Francis and Lady Simon. For this volume he has had full access to Simon's personal letters, papers, diaries, and event calendars, as well as to the scientific correspondence and documents deposited in the Simon Papers at the Royal Society Library and in the Cherwell Papers at Nuffield College, Oxford.

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