The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars
by Roger H. Stuewer
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0198827873 | 501 Pages | PDF | 32 MB
by Roger H. Stuewer
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0198827873 | 501 Pages | PDF | 32 MB
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.