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The physicists / C. P. Snow ; introduction by William Cooper.
LIBRA QC7 .S63 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980--Friends and associates.
- Snow, C. P.
- Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980.
- Physics--History.
- Physics.
- Physicists--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Atomic bomb--History.
- Atomic bomb.
- History.
- Friends and associates.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)
- Potok, Adena (autograph) (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, [1981]
- Contents:
- The direction of time's arrow
- From macrocosm to microcosm
- Founding fathers
- The quiet Dane
- The golden age
- The clouds gather
- 'This will never happen'
- Nuclear fission
- The younger masters
- A different harvest
- The double legacy.
- Notes:
- "First American edition 1981."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy inscribed "To My Very Special Chaim, who met the physicists in the world of ideas - and who, as they, grapples with the implementation of truth within the human condition. I am with you always. Adena 13 January 1982".
- ISBN:
- 0316802212 :
- OCLC:
- 7722354
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