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The Frisch-Peierls Memorandum : The Founding Document of the Nuclear Age.
Springer Nature - Springer Physics and Astronomy (R0) eBooks 2025 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Bruce Cameron.
- Series:
- SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940.Prepared by Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, refugee European physicists then at the University of Birmingham, this 10-page document described the physics behind the possibility of creating.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-031-95929-9
- OCLC:
- 1543219359
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