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Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
Istvan Hargittai
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Description for Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 b&w halftones, 56 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; PDX; PH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
If 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, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the 20th century. They were an extraordinary group of talents: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in ... Read more
If 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, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the 20th century. They were an extraordinary group of talents: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195365566
SKU
V9780195365566
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99-19
About Istvan Hargittai
István 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. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and has lectured in some 30 countries and taught at several universities in the United States. His books include the Candid Science ... Read more
Reviews for Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
"What a story! Five brilliant Jewish-Hungarian kids burst out of the great secondary schools of Hungary, learn their physics in Germany, and give their all to America in WWII István Hargittai, a Jewish Hungarian like his heroes, tells the remarkable story of five immigrants of vastly different politics, without whom American science (and the world) would not be the same."
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