Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Subtitle: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780785787532
Subjects: Nuclear Physics; Science; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); History; Atomic bomb; Atomic energy; Nuclear energy
First sentence: It is said that during the last year of the First World War Ernest Rutherford, already famous for his work on atomic research, failed to attend a meeting of the British committee of experts appointed to advise on new systems of defense against enemy submarines.