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AIP Press, 1994. Hardcover. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, hardcover, name on endpaper else fine in about fine navy blue pictorial dj. 371 pp. including index. Colleague and confidant of Einstein and Bohr, pioneer of nuclear fission theory, and staunch champion of the theory of black holes - John Archibald Wheeler is one of the most original and profound thinkers of modern science. In 1939 he published, with Niels Bohr, the first paper to describe nuclear fission successfully in terms of quantum physics, a ground-breaking study that led to his involvement in the Los Alamos atom bomb project and his subsequent work on the hydrogen bomb. Wheeler has made significant contributions to atomic and nuclear physics, elementary-particle physics, relativity theory, cosmology, and astrophysics. Yet, in the final analysis, it is his simple delight and wonder in "the machinery of existence" that illuminates this collection.
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At Home in the Universe (Masters of Modern Physics) Hardcover - 1994
by Wheeler, J. A.; Wheeler, John Archibald
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- Title At Home in the Universe (Masters of Modern Physics)
- Author Wheeler, J. A.; Wheeler, John Archibald
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- Publisher American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY
- Date 1994
- ISBN 9780883188620
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Woodbury: American Institute of Physics [0-88318-862-7] 1994. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 371pp. Diagrams, illustrations, graphs, notes, references, index. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn. "At Home in the Universe presents a feast of engaging essays formed of reminiscence, science, and conjecture. Wheeler provides intimate glimpses of Einstein, Bohr, and other giants in the field who were his friends and collaborators. He writes of debates and discussions with Bohr that formed the cornerstone of nuclear fission theory, long talks with Einstein in his upstairs study at Princeton, and the eloquence and nobility of Hermann Weyl. He sees in these and other great physicists - Marie Curie, Hideki Yukawa, and Hendrik Anthony Kramers - exemplars of the scientific spirit". Book about Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Hermann Weyl & Hideki Yukawa. Publisher series: Masters of Modern Physics 9. (Science, Physics, Science, Truth, Universe).
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Amer Inst of Physics, 1994-03-01. Hardcover. Like New. Book is in terrific, like-new shape excepting a few bent corners on a few pages about half way through . Pages have no wear, and all copy is crisp, clean, and UNMARKED. 100% of proceeds go towards promoting literacy in under-served areas of the world. Access codes and supplemental materials are not included.
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