Brighter than a thousand suns : a personal history of the atomic scientists / by Robery Jungk ; translated by James Cleugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jungk, Robert, 1913-1994, author.

Contributor:

Cleugh, James, translator.

Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Zinman Atomic Energy Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Heller als tausend Sonnen. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Nuclear energy--History.

Nuclear energy.

History.

Atomic bomb--History.

Atomic bomb.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 369 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace and Company, 1958.

Contents:

A time of change (1918-1923)

The beautiful years (1923-1932)

Collision with politics (1932-1933)

An unexpected discovery (1932-1939)

The decay of confidence (1939)

The strategy of prevention (1939-1942)

The laboratory becomes a barrack (1942-1945)

The rise of Oppenheimer (1939-1943)

Fission of a man (1943)

The pursuit of brains (1944-1945)

Atomic scientist versus atomic bomb (1944-1945)

For they know not what they do (1945)

The stricken (1945)

The scientists' crusade (1945-1946)

The bitter years (1947-1955)

"Joe I" and "super" (1949-1950)

Dilemma of the conscience (1950-1951)

In the sign of the "MANIAC" (1951-1955)

The fall of Oppenheimer (1952-1954)

At the bench of the accused (1954-1955)

Epilogue: The last chance?

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has highlighting throughout.

Penn Zinman copy has dust jacket.

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center Adams copy retains dust jacket.

OCLC:

181321