This is a readable history of "modern" physics, mainly focused on the science and politics of nuclear weapons but covering atomic physics from Rutherford up to 1980 - no superstrings here. I think it's too superficial to really explain much of the physics to complete novices but covers the history a...
bookshelves: autumn-2011, published-1951, skoolzy-stuff, winter-20112012, series, families, classic, fradio, radio-4x Read from November 29 to December 02, 2011 What if I happened, suddenly, to start liking Trollope after this dotdotdot : Age is creeping up3) 'The Masters - Part 1' blurb - It is ...
bookshelves: published-1954, autumn-2011, epic-proportions, fradio, radio-4x, winter-20112012 Read from November 29 to December 06, 2011 6) 'The New Men' blurb - Eliot's war was spent locked in the race against the germans to split the atom. It was the greatest adventure of his life. The biggest...
My skill in mathematics pales in comparison to Hardy's, but here goes anyway.Essentially, pure mathematics is more 'important' (if such a thing can be said) than applied mathematics, because the research conducted in the latter depends on the former. For example, cryptographers would not have a job ...
9) 'The Corridors of Power: An Even Bet' blurb - It's 1955 and Eliot has turned 50. He was blessed with a beautiful wife and a beautiful child. Although not a career civil servant, he was now a fixture in Whitehall. His job was to co-ordinate Britian's atomic bomb project - not a task he relished. T...
8) 'The Affair' blurbs - The 'affair' happened at the Cambridge college where Eliot had taught law before the war. Then, the college had scooped him up and resurrected his faltering career and had maintained a place in his affections ever since. In 1954, Eliot was semi-detached from the university a...
6) 'The New Men' blurb - Eliot's war was spent locked in the race against the germans to split the atom. It was the greatest adventure of his life. The biggest thing he had ever been involved in. You could say he was the crucial link between the nuclear research facility at Barford and Whitehall. O...
5) 'The Light and the Dark' blurb - Eliot spent the first years of the war scared stiff, and he was right to be. He was about to find himself at the heart of a project that would threaten the future of civilisation. They were fighting the Germans, the Americans weren't yet in the war, the League of ...
What if I happened to start liking Trollope after this dotdotdot : Age is creeping up3) 'The Masters - Part 1' blurb - It is January 1937 and Cambridge lies muffled under a blanket of deep snow. The quad is empty and quiet while Eliot sits enjoying the fireside. He and his wife have become use to l...
2) 'The Conscience of the Rich' blurb - It is April 1936 and Lewis is now 31 years old. While the facists and the Republicans fought it out in Spain, Lewis navigated his way through the lower echelons of the British establishment. From obscure Midlands poverty he has risen to a fellowship in law at ...
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