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Otto Hahn : achievement and responsibility
- Title
- Otto Hahn : achievement and responsibility / Klaus Hoffmann.
- Author
- Hoffmann, Klaus, Dr. rer. nat.
- Publication
- New York : Springer, [2001], ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- x, 276 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Uniform Title
- Otto Hahn. English
- Alternative Title
- Otto Hahn.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-264) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Atom Bomb and Nobel Prize -- 2. Boyhood, Studies, and the First Probationary Years -- 3. The Awakening of the Natural Sciences -- 4. The First Scientific Discovery -- 5. Research at the University of Berlin -- 6. The Kaiser Wilhelm Society -- 7. The First World War -- 8. New Success for the Atomic Researchers -- 9. National Socialism - Night Falls on German Science -- 10. Dispute Over the 93rd Element -- 11. The Splitting of the Uranium Atom -- 12. The Threat of Hitler's Atom Bomb -- 13. The American Super-Explosive U235 -- 14. The Hunt for the Atomic Scientists -- 15. A World Full of Prejudice -- 16. Atom Bomb Diplomacy -- 17. In Conflict with Conscience and Politics -- 18. The Call of the Gottingen Eighteen -- 19. Against Nuclear Weapon Experiments and Nuclear Balance -- 20. Timetable -- 21. Sources and Pointers.
- ISBN
- 0387950575 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00040045
- OCLC
- ocm44046965
- SCSB-4147924
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries