Martians of Science, The: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (Inbunden)
avIstvan Hargittai
ISBN: 9780195178456 - UTGIVEN: 2006-08-17
Martians of Science (Häftad)
avIstvan Hargittai
ISBN: 9780195365566 - UTGIVEN: 200805If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the 20th century in the same neighborhood in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. Through immigration from Hungary to Germany to the United States, t[...]
The Road to Stockholm (Häftad)
avIstvan Hargittai
ISBN: 9780198607854 - UTGIVEN: 2003-08The Nobel Prize is by far the highest recognition a scientist may receive and the only one with which the general public is familiar. Its prestige has reached improbable heights. At the same time, a lot of myth surrounds the Nobel Prize, and this is compounded by the fact that people tend to view sc[...]
Judging Edward Teller (Inbunden)
avIstvan Hargittai
ISBN: 9781616142216 - UTGIVEN: 201011Drawing on previously untapped sources, here is a unique examination of the life and legacy of one of the 20th century's most controversial and influential scientists. To his supporters he was a hero of the Cold War, to his detractors he was evil personified, but no matter which way you look at it, [...]
