Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, "Hedy…
The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This revised and updated 3rd edition explores the challenges that faced the scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project. It gives a cl…
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path throug…
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path throug…
by Goudsmit, Samuel A., (Samuel Abraham)
fromHistory of modern physics and astronomy
by Goudsmit, Samuel A., (Samuel Abraham)
fromHistory of modern physics and astronomy
by Goudsmit, Samuel A., (Samuel Abraham)
fromHistory of modern physics and astronomy
by Goudsmit, Samuel A., (Samuel Abraham)
fromHistory of modern physics and astronomy
During the final weeks of World War II in Europe, as Allied armies swept across a chaotic, battle-torn Germany, two teams of the world's leading nuclear scientists were desperately at work. One team, sequestered in the New Mexican desert, hastened to assemble the atomic bombs th…
