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Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century

Hargittai, Istvan

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Edition:	1st
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN:	0-19-803967-0 (0198039670)
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-803967-9 (9780198039679)
Binding:	E E Book + ProQuest Ebook Central
Copyright:	2006
Publish Date:	07/06
Weight:	0.00 Lbs.
Carton Quantity:	18
Subject Class:	G-S (General Science (Non Medical))
Return Policy:	Non-Returnable.
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Abstract:

If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. 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 twentieth century. Each was fiercely opinionated, politically active, and fought against all forms of totalitarianism. Istvan Hargittai, as a young Hungarian physical chemist, was able to get to know some of these great men in their later years, and the depth of information and human interest in The Martians of Science is the result of his personal relationships with the subjects, their families, and their contemporaries.

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