The Martians of Science
Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2006. augusztus 17.
- ISBN 9780195178456
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem376 oldal
- Méret 234x166x29 mm
- Súly 676 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 56 halftones, 26 line illus. 0
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Rövid leírás:
The Martians is the engaging story of five little-known Hungarian physicists who transformed 20th century science. They emigrated to the United States from Hungary in the 1930s, and were important contributors to such importants experiments as the Manhattan Project. Variously recognized with the National Medal for Science, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Prize for physics, these five remained close friends throughout their lives. Through decades of political and social upheaval, they held onto their Hungarian identities and were fiervely opinionated and politically active, reactionaries against the fascism and anti-Semitism with which they had grown up. Based on the author's personal relationships with the subjects and many interviews with their contemporaries, The Martians is an exhaustively researched, fascinating story of an important era in American, Hungarian, and scientific history.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the 20th century in the same neighborhood in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. Through immigration from Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the 20th century.
They were an extraordinary group of talents: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics without ever having taken a formal college-level physics course, Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms, von Neumann could solve problems in his head for which most people needed computers, von Karman became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial "Star Wars" defense initiative of the 1980s. Each was fiercely opinionated and politically active, reactionaries against the fascism and anti-Semitism with which they had grown up. Istvan Hargittai, as a young Hungarian physicist, was able to get to know these great men in their later years, and the depth of information and human interest in this book is the result of his personal relationships with the subjects, their families and their contemporaries.
This is an important story that needs to be told, and Hargittai tells it well. Nature, November 2006.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Plates
Introduction
Arrival and Departure
Family Origin and Early Childhood
Gem and Less: Gimn??zium Experience
Background in Hungary and First Transition
Turning Points in Germany
Second Transition: to the United States
"To Protect and Defend": World War II
To Deter: Cold War
Being Martian
Comparisons
Szilard and Fermi
Teller and Oppenheimer
Traits
Religion and Jewishness
Being Hungarian
Epilogue
Greatness in Science
Had They Lived
Conclusion
Appendix: Quotable Martians
Notes
Select Bibliography
Annotated Name Index
Subject Index
