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At Home in the Universe (Masters of Modern Physics)
by Wheeler, John Archibald
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0883188627
- ISBN 13
- 9780883188620
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
AIP Press, 1994. Hardcover. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, hardcover, name on endpaper else fine in about fine navy blue pictorial dj. 371 pp. including index. Colleague and confidant of Einstein and Bohr, pioneer of nuclear fission theory, and staunch champion of the theory of black holes - John Archibald Wheeler is one of the most original and profound thinkers of modern science. In 1939 he published, with Niels Bohr, the first paper to describe nuclear fission successfully in terms of quantum physics, a ground-breaking study that led to his involvement in the Los Alamos atom bomb project and his subsequent work on the hydrogen bomb. Wheeler has made significant contributions to atomic and nuclear physics, elementary-particle physics, relativity theory, cosmology, and astrophysics. Yet, in the final analysis, it is his simple delight and wonder in "the machinery of existence" that illuminates this collection.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85809
- Title
- At Home in the Universe (Masters of Modern Physics)
- Author
- Wheeler, John Archibald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0883188627
- ISBN 13
- 9780883188620
- Publisher
- AIP Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodbury, Ny
- Date Published
- 1994
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