num_pages: 340
description: John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr’s "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust , a parody of Goethe’s Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer , the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists’ descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard’s post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins.
language: English
title: The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs
titlecomplete: The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature)
ratings_count: 7
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press