"Kernwaffe." . . "TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Power Resources Nuclear." . . "Geschichte 1900-2000" . . "Nuclear energy Research History 20th century." . . "Uran (paliwo) 20 w." . . . . . . . . . . "\"Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom - the most controversial type of energy ever discovered. Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the story of the fierce competition among the day's top scientists to harness nuclear power. The intensely driven Marie Curie identified radioactivity. The University of Berlin team of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner--he an upright, politically conservative German chemist and she a soft-spoken Austrian Jewish theoretical physicist--achieved the most spectacular discoveries in fission. Curie's daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, raced against Meitner and Hahn to break the secret of the splitting of the atom. As the war raged, Niels Bohr, a founder of modern physics, had a dramatic meeting with Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist in charge of the Nazi project to beat the Allies to the bomb. And finally, in 1942, Enrico Fermi, a prodigy from Rome who had fled the war to the United States, unleashed the first nuclear chain reaction in a racquetball court at the University of Chicago.\"--Jacket."@en . "\"Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom - the most controversial type of energy ever discovered. Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the story of the fierce competition among the day's top scientists to harness nuclear power. The intensely driven Marie Curie identified radioactivity. The University of Berlin team of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner--he an upright, politically conservative German chemist and she a soft-spoken Austrian Jewish theoretical physicist--achieved the most spectacular discoveries in fission. Curie's daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, raced against Meitner and Hahn to break the secret of the splitting of the atom. As the war raged, Niels Bohr, a founder of modern physics, had a dramatic meeting with Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist in charge of the Nazi project to beat the Allies to the bomb. And finally, in 1942, Enrico Fermi, a prodigy from Rome who had fled the war to the United States, unleashed the first nuclear chain reaction in a racquetball court at the University of Chicago.\"--Jacket." . . . . . . . . . . . . "Uranium wars the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age" . "Uranium wars the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age"@en . . . "Scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age" . . "Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age"@en . . . "Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age" . "History"@en . . "History" . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . "Kernenergie." . . "Armes nucléaires." . . "Physique nucléaire Recherche Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Uranium (combustible) Recherche 20e siècle." . . "Nuclear physics Research History 20th century." . . "Atombombe." . . "Recherche nucléaire." . . "Nuclear weapons Research History 20th century." . . "Broń jądrowa 20 w." . . "Énergie nucléaire Vingtième siècle." . . "Politique scientifique et technique Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Science and state History 20th century." . . "Uranium (Combustible) Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Uranium." . . "Politique scientifique Recherche 20e siècle." . . . . "Physique nucléaire." . . "Militärpolitik." . . "Armes nucléaires Recherche Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Physique nucléaire Recherche 20e siècle." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Kernphysik." . . "Histoire." . . "Energie nucléaire." . . "Uranium as fuel History 20th century." . . "Armes nucléaires Recherche 20e siècle." . . "Énergie nucléaire Recherche Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Energia jądrowa 20 w." . . "Uran." . .