George Placzek: A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey

by Misha Shifman, Aleš Gottvald, Mikhail Shifman

This book presents the first detailed biography of George Placzek -- an outstanding physicist, a participant in the Manhattan Project who stood at the very inception of nuclear physics and the subsequent development of the nuclear bomb in the course of the WWII. In the 1930s, George Placzek was known as an adventurous person with a sharp sense of humor, a tireless generator of novel physics ideas which he generously shared with his colleagues. Born...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811221340
• ISBN13: 9789811221347
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"