Nuclear Energy
By: edited by Alvin M. Weinberg
Series: The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, Part A The Scientific Papers -- A / 5; Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, Part A The Scientific Papers -- A / 5.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 808
ISBN-13: 9783642774270; 9783642774256
Subjects: Physical organic chemistry; Nuclear fusion; Nuclear physics; Physics; Renewable energy sources
Description: Eugene Wigner is one of the very few scientists that may safely be describedas creators of 20th-century physics. This volume of his Collected Works is devoted to his contributions to nuclear energy. In his Introduction and Annotations A.M. Weinberg surveys Wigner's contributions to nuclear-reaction physics and nuclear engineering, at the same time giving a glimpse of the early history of nuclear-reactor technology. Wigner himself gave a lively and critical account, which is published in this volume for the first time. Furthermore the book contains forty-two reports and memoranda from 1941 to 1945 and twelve of Wigner's many patents relating to nuclear energy.
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