Before the Fallout From Marie Curie to Hiroshima

Name: Before the Fallout From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
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ISBN: 9780425207895

ISBN-10: 0425207897

ISBN-13: 9780425207895

Edition: 2006

Authors: Diana Preston

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In 1898, Marie Curie first described a phenomenon she called "radioactivity." A half-century later, two physicists would stand before dawn in the New Mexico desert, slathering themselves with sunscreen-and fearing that the imminent test detonation might ignite Earth's atmosphere in a cataclysmic chain reaction and transform our planet into a burning star. This is the epic story of Curie's quest to unlock the secrets of the material world; of the scientists-Rutherford, Bohr, Einstein, Oppenheimer-who built upon her work; of the day the first weapon of mass destruction dropped on Hiroshima, bringing both sudden terror and sudden peace, and of the new era of global uncertainty that emerged…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.14" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Diana Preston is an Oxford-trained historian, writer and broadcaster. She is the author of THE ROAD TO CULLODEN MOOR; A FIRST RATE TRAGEDY: ROBERT FALCON SCOTT AND THE RACE TO THE SOUTH POLE; THE BOXER REBELLION and WILFUL MURDER: THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA. She lives in West London.