The Martians of Science (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
376
Utgivningsdatum
2006-08-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
OUP USA
Illustrationer
56 halftones, 26 line illustrations
Dimensioner
240 x 163 x 31 mm
Vikt
660 g
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1
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52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780195178456

The Martians of Science

Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century

av Istvn Hargittai
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2006-08-01
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The Martians is the engaging story of five little-known Hungarian physicists who transformed 20th century science. They emigrated to the United States from Hungary in the 1930s, and were important contributors to such importants experiments as the Manhattan Project. Variously recognized with the National Medal for Science, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Prize for physics, these five remained close friends throughout their lives. Through decades of political and social upheaval, they held onto their Hungarian identities and were fiervely opinionated and politically active, reactionaries against the fascism and anti-Semitism with which they had grown up. Based on the author's personal relationships with the subjects and many interviews with their contemporaries, The Martians is an exhaustively researched, fascinating story of an important era in American, Hungarian, and scientific history.
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This is an important story that needs to be told, and Hargittai tells it well. Nature, November 2006.

The similarities between character and fate with the Martians are not the only thing that makes Hargittai well suited to the job of writing their biographies; he also writes clearly and with dry humour. 3-2006, Lab Times, p55.

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<br>Istv n Hargittai is Professor of Chemistry and head of the George A. Olah PhD School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and research professor at E tv s University. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and member of the Academia Europaea (London). He holds a PhD degree from E tv s University, D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and honorary doctorates from Moscow State University, the University of North Carolina, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has lectured in some 30 countries and taught at several universities in the United States. He has published extensively on structural chemistry and on symmetry-related topics. His books include the Candid Science series of his collected interviews with famous scientists, The Road toStockholm about the Nobel Prize, and Our Lives, which includes a considerable amount of autobiographical material. He and his fellow professor wife live in Budapest. Their grown children, both PhDs, live in the United States.<br>

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Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Plates; Introduction; 1. Arrival and Departure; 1.1 Family Origin and Early Childhood; 1.2 Gem and Less: Gimnazium Experience; 1.3 Background in Hungary and First Transition; 2 Turning Points in Germany; 3 Second Transition: to the United States; 4 "To Protect and Defend": World War II; 5 To Deter: Cold War; 6 Being Martian; 6.1 Comparisons; 6.1.1 Szilard and Fermi; 6.1.2 Teller and Oppenheimer; 6.2 Traits; 6.3 Religion and Jewishness; 6.4 Being Hungarian; Epilogue; Greatness in Science; Had They Lived; Conclusion; Appendix: Quotable Martians; Notes; Select Bibliography; Annotated Name Index; Subject Index

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