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Adventures in the atomic age : from Watts to Washington / Glenn T. Seaborg with Eric Seaborg.
Van Pelt Library QD22.S436 A32 2001
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QD22.S436 A3 2001 Zinman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999.
- Seaborg, Glenn T.
- Science and state--United States.
- Science and state.
- Science consultants.
- United States.
- Nuclear energy--Government policy--United States.
- Nuclear energy.
- Nuclear energy--Government policy.
- Science consultants--United States--Biography.
- Chemists--United States--Biography.
- Chemists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 312 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
- Summary:
- Autobiography of Nobel Prize winner, Glenn Seaborg.
- Contents:
- 1. A Michigan boyhood
- 2. California here we come
- 3. A free education
- 4. Graduate school wonderland
- 5. Apprentice to a master chemist
- 6. The bomb splits
- 7. Plutonium : a secret discovery
- 8. The Manhattan Project
- 9. Scaling up a billion times
- 10. Reflections on the bomb
- 11. Rearranging the table of elements
- 12. Back to the rad lab
- 13. The H-bomb and Oppenheimer
- 14. Big prizes : children, elements, and a Nobel
- 15. A Chancellor's three challenges
- 16. Kennedy's call : a move to Washington
- 17. LBJ : a president and a friend
- 18. Troubles with Nixon and a look inside the AEC
- 19. Nuclear power : its past and future
- 20. A professor again.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0374299919
- 9780374299910
- OCLC:
- 45129156
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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