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205 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
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English
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Presents the professional and private lives of Marie and Pierre Curie, examining their personal struggles, the advancements they made in the world of science, and the issue of radiation in the modern world.
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xxx, 304 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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They call themselves Jason. Their group is a child of the Cold War, and they include scientific stars like Freeman Dyson and Murray Gell-Mann. They've inherited a mission from the Manhattan Project -- to counsel the government on the military uses of pure science -- and have gathered every summer since 1960 to solve classified problems for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Aside from a brief media firestorm during the Vietnam...
164) Oppenheimer
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2 videodiscs (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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269 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Pollack shares with poignant humor and candid language the trials of being smart and female in a world that is just learning to imagine equality between the sexes. Maybe It's Me is a question all smart women have asked themselves. Pollack's autobiographical essays take us on a roller-coaster ride from gratifyingly humorous street-level stories of innocent curiosity to the calculated meanness of tweeny girls to the defensive strategies of threatened...
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158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A scientist's recollection of his life as a junior member of the Manhattan Project, Rider of the Pale Horse recounts McAllister Hull's involvement in various nuclear-related enterprises during and after World War II. Fresh from a summer job working with explosives in the chemistry department of an ordnance plant, Hull was drafted in 1943, after his freshman year in college. Unlike other accounts written by scientists and historians of that era, Hull's...
169) Hawking
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298 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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English
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"From his early days at the St Albans School and Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humor were obvious to everyone he met. A lively and popular young man, it's no surprise that he would later rise to celebrity status."--Provided by publisher.
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400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain -- the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb -- showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"--
Klaus Fuchs was convicted of espionage by Britain in 1950 for handing over the designs of the plutonium bomb to the Russians, and has gone down in history as one of the most dangerous agents...
171) Black sun: a novel
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English
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"A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--
1961, Arzamas-16, a top-secret research city that does not appear on any map. RDS-220 is a project of such vital national importance...
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xiii, 190 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"No single figure embodies Cold War science more than the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although other scientists may have been more influential in establishing the institutions and policies of the nuclear age, none has loomed larger in the popular imagination than the 'father of the atomic bomb.' Americans have been drawn to the story of the Manhattan Project Oppenheimer helped lead and riveted by the McCarthy-era politics that caught...
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xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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Describes how Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers enlisted the help of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer on a three-year collaboration that resulted in the U.S. beating the Nazis to the invention of the atomic bomb.
174) Einstein revealed
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Journey into the mind of a genius-- and, with the help of some whimsical computer animation, visualize experiments only Einstein could imagine.
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397 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics...
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viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a "beautiful and important book." It appears here together...
179) Katherine Johnson
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm.
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English
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Find out about Katherine Johnson and how her calculations helped with some of the first flights into space. Discover why Katherine Johnson was a role model for black women working in science and which missions she worked on.
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Works volume 6
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387 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
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English
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Shevek, a briliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.
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