Nuclear Dawn
F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 March 2014
- ISBN 9780199687183
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 243x175x21 mm
- Weight 750 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 b/w illustrations 0
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Short description:
A biography of the experimental physicist Franz Simon, describing his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics. This volume is distinctive for using new source materials and the broad setting of five competing nuclear programmes.
MoreLong description:
This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero. After 1939 he switched his research to nuclear physics, and is credited with solving the problem of uranium isotope separation by gaseous diffusion for the British nuclear programme Tube Alloys.
The volume is distinctive for its inclusion of source materials not available to previous researchers, such as Simon's diary and his correspondence with his wife, and for a fresh, well-informed insider voice on the five-power nuclear rivalry of the war years.
The work also draws on a relatively mature nuclear literature to attempt a comparison and evaluation of the five nuclear rivals in wider political and military context, and to identify the factors, or groups of factors, that can explain the results.
... a highly readable book ... There is something for all in the book, and physicists will be eager to look further afield for more of Simon's science.
Table of Contents:
Preface: A House in Oxford
Growing Up into a World at War
Berlin 1919-1930
Breslau 1931-1933
Oxford 1933-1939
Any Capable Physicist 1939-1941
Industrial Plants ... Heretofore Deemed Impossible 1942-1945
Why Manhattan?
Something Reasonable Again
Security Lapses
Germany in the Balance
A Rounded Life
