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Pub. Date
2003
Description
Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time
The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller-the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction.
How did science-and...
143) Interference
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When her husband, a quantum physicist, goes missing in the midst of a strange, violent seizure, Brigid Bronik discovers that his research had gained unwanted attention and wonders if the very same physics that endangered him could actually be used to save his life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Focusing on the lives and relationships behind their magnificent careers, The Curies is the first biography to trace the entire Curie dynasty, from Pierre and Marie's fruitful union and achievements to the lives and accomplishments of their two daughters, Irène and Eve, and son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie. Biographer Denis Brian digs deep beneath the headlines and legends to reveal the Curies' multigenerational saga in its entirety, featuring new,...
149) COSM
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
An accidental explosion in a laboratory creates a wormhole, a space-time tunnel, which black physicist Alicia Butterworth uses to visit another universe. Time is so fast in this other world, Alicia can observe cosmic evolution as it happens. By the author of Sailing Bright Eternity.
151) Albert Einstein
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Series
Pub. Date
[1983]
Description
Describes Einstein's life and his work whose impact caused a revolution in physics. Summarizes Newton's theories and Einstein's theory of relativity.
152) Albert Einstein
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
A biography of the scientist famous for his theory of relativity.
154) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the seventeenth-century English physicist whose work includes the discovery of the laws of gravity and the math that today we know as calculus.
155) Einstein's dreams
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Fictional account of patent clerk Albert Einstein and the new worlds he imagines in his dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Profiles the life and achievements of cosmologist Stephen William Hawking, one of the world's greatest science writers, whose notable accomplishments were achieved in spite of disabilities caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied the few books he could get his hands on, built handmade machines, and experimented with alchemy--a process...