AlsosSpringer Science & Business Media, 7 mar 1996 - 259 páginas Second reprint of this great story of scientific espionage (original, 1947, reprinted 1983). Goudsmit ran the Alsos Mission following Allied troops into liberated areas of Europe to glean (with glee) evidence of Nazi atom bomb accomplishments. Light science, heavier discussion of Germany's decline |
Índice
The Fear of a German Atom Bomb | 3 |
We Prepare to Investigate German Science | 14 |
The Need for Secrecy | 26 |
Operation Cellastic | 34 |
Operation Toothpaste | 50 |
Operation Jackpot | 66 |
We Meet Some German Colleagues | 77 |
The Breakthrough | 87 |
Hiroshima and the German Scientists | 128 |
The Misorganization of German Science | 140 |
The Uranium Club | 160 |
The Gestapo in Science | 187 |
The Efficiency of German Industry | 214 |
It Cant Happen Here | 232 |
An Outline of the Uranium Problem | 247 |
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Términos y frases comunes
academic Ahnenerbe Air Force Allied American atom bomb atomic nucleus Berlin Cellastic civilian colleagues Colonel Pash concentration camp Courtesy of Brookhaven Diebner documents Emilio Segrè engineer experiments Farm Hall French Führer Gerlach German atom bomb German nuclear German physicists German physics German science German scientists German uranium project Gestapo Goering Goudsmit headquarters heavy water Hechingen Heidelberg Heil Hitler Himmler Hiroshima important industry Intelligence interest jeep Kaiser Wilhelm Institute knew labor laboratory later Laue letter ment Mentzel military Mission modern physics Nazi neutrons never nuclear physics nuclear research organization Osenberg Otto Hahn papers Paris Peenemünde personnel physicists plans plutonium prisoners produce Prof Professor radioactive reactor Reich's Research Council Reichsmarshal Schumann scientific secrecy sent Strasbourg thing thorium tion tists told University Uranium Club uranium pile uranium problem uranium research Walther Gerlach Weizsäcker Werner Heisenberg wine
Pasajes populares
Página iii - Physics and Astronomy EDITORIAL BOARD Gerald Holton, Coeditor Harvard University Katherine R. Sopka, Coeditor Four Corners Analytic Sciences Stephen G. Brush University of Maryland Roger H. Stuewer University of Minnesota Spencer R. Weart Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics John A. Wheeler Princeton University University of Texas History of Modern Physics and Astronomy TITLES IN SERIES VOLUME 1 Alsos by Samuel A.
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