Love and physics: the Peierlses
Shifman, Mikhail
Love and physics: the Peierlses - New Jersey: World Scientific, 2019. - ix, 457p.; pbk; 25cm
Includes references and index
This special book is a compilation of essays on a remarkable but little-known story that lasted over half a century of world-renown physicist, the late Sir Rudolf Peierls and his wife Genia Kannegiser. Peierls collected a lot of prestigious awards in his lifetime, and in the beginning of WW2, he and Otto Frisch were responsible for the inception of the Anglo-American nuclear program (1940). He was also one of the key contributors in the research at Los Alamos during those turbulent times.
https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9789813279902
9789811201387
Nuclear physics
Physicists
Great Britain
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
539.7092 / SHI
Love and physics: the Peierlses - New Jersey: World Scientific, 2019. - ix, 457p.; pbk; 25cm
Includes references and index
This special book is a compilation of essays on a remarkable but little-known story that lasted over half a century of world-renown physicist, the late Sir Rudolf Peierls and his wife Genia Kannegiser. Peierls collected a lot of prestigious awards in his lifetime, and in the beginning of WW2, he and Otto Frisch were responsible for the inception of the Anglo-American nuclear program (1940). He was also one of the key contributors in the research at Los Alamos during those turbulent times.
https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9789813279902
9789811201387
Nuclear physics
Physicists
Great Britain
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
539.7092 / SHI
