A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey
by
Aleš Gottvald, Mikhail Shifman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book presents the first detailed biography of George Placzek — an outstanding physicist, a participant in the Manhattan Project who stood at the very inception of nuclear physics and the subsequent development of the nuclear bomb in the course of the WWII. In the 1930s, George Placzek was known...