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The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs
University of Wisconsin Press, 2000 Cloth: 978-0-299-16850-6 | Paper: 978-0-299-16854-4 Library of Congress Classification QC791.96.C36 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 355.825119
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr’s "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe’s Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists’ descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard’s post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins. See other books on: Atomic bomb | Literature | Nuclear energy | Physics | Rhetoric See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2000
Cloth: 978-0-299-16850-6
Paper: 978-0-299-16854-4
Cloth: 978-0-299-16850-6
Paper: 978-0-299-16854-4
John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr’s "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe’s Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists’ descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard’s post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins.
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