By Istvan Hargittai
ISBN-10: 0195178459
ISBN-13: 9780195178456
ISBN-10: 0195365569
ISBN-13: 9780195365566
They have been a unprecedented team of skills: Wigner gained a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was once the 1st to determine chain response in response to neutrons used to be attainable, initiated the ny undertaking, yet left physics to attempt to limit nuclear palms; von Neumann may resolve tough difficulties in his head and constructed the fashionable desktop for extra advanced difficulties; von Kármán turned the 1st director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, supplying the clinical foundation for the U.S. Air strength; and Teller was once the daddy of the hydrogen bomb, whose identify is now synonymous with the debatable "Star Wars" initiative of the Eighties. every one used to be fiercely opinionated, politically energetic, and fought opposed to all sorts of totalitarianism.
István Hargittai, as a tender Hungarian actual chemist, was once capable of get to understand a few of these nice males of their later years, and the intensity of data and human curiosity in The Martians of Science is the results of his own relationships with the themes, their households, and their contemporaries.
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