Title: Nuclear dawn : F. E. Simon and the race for atomic weapons in World War II /
Authors: McRae, Kenneth D.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Simon, Francis E.,; Simon, F. E.; Physiker; Kernwaffe; Weltkrieg; Physicists Biography; Atomic bomb History; Nuclear physicists Great Britain Biography.; Nuclear physicists Germany Biography.; Nuclear physics History; Deutschland
Abstract: A biography of the experimental physicist Franz Simon, describing his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics. This volume is distinctive for using new source materials and the broad setting of five competing nuclear programmes.
Contents: Growing up into a world at war -- Berlin 1919-1930 -- Breslau 1931-1933 -- Oxford 1933-1939 -- Any capable physicist 1939-1941 -- Industrial plants . . . heretofore deemed impossible 1942-1945 -- Why Manhattan? -- Something reasonable again -- Security lapses -- Germany in the balance -- A rounded life -- Appendix : Simon's report to Perrin about Heisenberg, 11 March 1948.