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Principles of American nuclear chemistry : a novel / Thomas McMahon.
LIBRA PS3563.A3188 P75 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMahon, Thomas A., 1943-1999.
- Series:
- Phoenix fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Los Alamos (N.M.)--Fiction.
- Los Alamos (N.M.).
- Atomic bomb--Fiction.
- Atomic bomb.
- Physicists--Fiction.
- Physicists.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- What was life like for the scientists working at Los Alamos? Thomas McMahon imagines this life through the wide eyes of young Tim MacLaurin, the thirteen-year-old son of an MIT physicist who, inspired by a young woman named Maryann, worked on the project. Filled with the sensuous excitement of scientific discovery and the outrageous behavior of people pushed beyond their limits, "Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry is a beautifully written coming-of-age story that explores the mysterious connections between love and work, inspiration and history.
- ISBN:
- 0226561100
- OCLC:
- 51978066
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