Martians of Science Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century

Name: Martians of Science Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780195178456

ISBN-10: 0195178459

ISBN-13: 9780195178456

Edition: 2006

Authors: Istvï¿½n Hargittai

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If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. From Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the twentieth century. They were an extraordinary group of talents: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan…

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List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/27/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.21" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


List of Plates


Introduction



Arrival and Departure



Family Origin and Early Childhood



Gem and Less: Gimnazium Experience



Background in Hungary and First Transition



Turning Points in Germany



Second Transition: to the United States



""To Protect and Defend"": World War II



To Deter: Cold War



Being Martian



Comparisons



Szilard and Fermi



Teller and Oppenheimer



Traits



Religion and Jewishness



Being Hungarian


Epilogue


Greatness in Science


Had They Lived


Conclusion


Appendix: Quotable Martians


Notes


Select Bibliography


Annotated Name Index


Subject Index