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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Beyond uncertainty Beyond uncertainty David C. Cassidy Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In *Beyond Uncertainty*, Cassidy interprets this and other previously… OL2005976W
Oppenheimer Oppenheimer Charles Thorpe At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulte… OL235743W
Brotherhood of the Bomb Brotherhood of the Bomb Gregg Herken "If science is the story of the twentieth century, no drama is more compelling than that of "the Bomb" and its creators. But the tale of human conflict that connects the three scientists most respons… OL4106029W
Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Herzberg B. P. Stoicheff "Gerhard Herzberg (1904-1999) was one of the greatest scientists of the last century. He was born and educated in Germany and started his research just as the exciting discovery of quantum mechanics … OL6069075W