The First Nuclear Era

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The First Nuclear Era is written by Alvin M. Weinberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1563963582 (ISBN 10) and 9781563963582 (ISBN 13).

Weinberg has witnessed and played a major part in many of the defining scientific moments of his era. Here he describes his academic career at the University of Chicago, under the tutelage of Nicolas Rashevsky and Carl Eckart. He recalls his wartime days at the Manhattan Project's Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory where he helped Nobelist Eugene Wigner design the Hanford plutonium producing reactors.