Nuclear Dawn
Subtitle: F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199687183
Subjects: Physicists, biography; Nuclear physics; Germany, biography; Great britain, biography
Description: 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.