The Martians of Science five physicists who changed the twentieth century

István Hargittai tells the story of this remarkable group: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan Project, but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms; von Neumann could solve di...

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Tác giả chính: István Hargittai
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Được phát hành: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2006
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