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Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945 Hardcover - 1993
by Lillian Hoddeson; Paul W. Henriksen; Roger A. Meade
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Following the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938, scientists in Germany, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States began to investigate the possibility of exploiting this energy source for military purposes.
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Unlike earlier histories of Los Alamos, this book treats in detail the research and development that led to the implosion and gun weapons; the research in nuclear physics, chemistry, and metallurgy that enabled clear bomb, the 'Super.'
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- Title Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945
- Author Lillian Hoddeson; Paul W. Henriksen; Roger A. Meade
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 4th Printing 199
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, New York
- Date 1993-05-28
- ISBN 9780521441322 / 0521441323
- Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.38 x 1.27 in (23.67 x 16.21 x 3.23 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory - History, Atomic bomb - New Mexico - Los Alamos -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92036611
- Dewey Decimal Code 623.451
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993. Advance Review Copy. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 509 pages : 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [418]-492) and indexes. Contents; 1. Introduction -- 2. Early Research on Fission: 1933-1943 -- 3. The Early Materials Program: 1933-1943 -- 4. Setting Up Project Y: June 1942 to March 1943 -- 5. Research in the First Months of Project Y: April to September 1943 -- 6. Creating a Wartime Community: September 1943 to August 1944 -- 7. The Gun Weapon: September 1943 to August 1944 -- 8. The Implosion Program Accelerates: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 9. New Hopes for the Implosion Weapon: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 10. The Nuclear Properties of a Fission Weapon: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 11. Uranium and Plutonium: Early 1943 to August 1944 -- 12. The Discovery of Spontaneous Fission in…
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. xv, [1], 509, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Name Index. Subject Index. Lillian Hartman Hoddeson (born 20 December 1940, in New York City) is an American historian of science, specializing in the history of physics and technology during the 2nd half of the 20th century. Hoddeson received in 1957 a high school diploma from the Bronx High School of Science, in 1961 a bachelor's degree in physics from Barnard College, and in 1966 a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. She was an assistant professor of physics from 1967 to 1970 at Barnard College and from 1971 to 1976 at Rutgers University. In 1974-1975 she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and took Thomas Kuhn's "History of Quantum Mechanics" course. From 1977 to 1992 she held academic positions at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, before becoming there an associate professor from 1993 to 2000 and a full professor from 2000 until her…
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