THE FREEDOM OF MAN. [Terry Foundation Lecture, 1931.]

by Compton, Arthur

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New Haven:: Yale Univ.,, 1935. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; covers age-soiled.. Compton (1892-1962); discovered Compton Effect (1923); shared 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Charles T.R. Wilson. ||| As Director of Metallurgical Laboratory at Univ. of Chicago in 1942, Compton worked with Enrico Fermi on the first sustained, controlled atomic reaction, which eventually led to atom bomb & nuclear power plants producing electricity.