The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs

ISBN-13: 9780299168544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 340 str.

John Canaday

Opis

John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr s "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe s Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard s post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins."