Symposium on Atomic Energy and its Implications
Subtitle: Papers read at the joint meeting of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences, November 16 and 17, 1945.
Contributors: American Philosophical Society.; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Series: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society,; v. 90, no. 1. Jan. 29, 1946
Publisher: The American Philosophical Society
Published: 1946
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Nuclear energy.; Nuclear energy.; Atomic bomb.
Table of contents: title: Fifty years of atomic physics, by H. D. Smyth.; title: Atomic weapons, by J. R. Oppenheimer.; title: Health protection activities of the plutonium project, by R. S. Stone.; title: The development of the first chain reacting pile, by Enrico Fermi.; title: Resonance reactions, by E. P. Wigner.; title: Methods and objectives in the separation of isotopes, by H. C. Urey.; title: Problems and prospects in elementary particle research, by J. A. Wheeler.; title: Social adjustments to atomic energy, by J. H. Willits.; title: The implications of the atomic bomb for international relations, by Jacob Viner.; title: The control of atomic energy under the charter, by J. T. Shotwell.; title: World control of atomic energy, by Irving Langmuir.; title: Atomic energy as a human asset, by A. H. Compton.