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Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu / by Bodden, Valerie,author.(CARDINAL)470764;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Scientific start -- Going nuclear -- War work -- Disproving a lawExperimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu has been called the "Queen of Nuclear Research" and the "First Lady of Physics." Learn how her contributions to the field of nuclear physics helped earn her those nicknamesAges 8-12Middle grade840LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Chinese American women; Chinese Americans; Physicists; Physics; Women physicists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Collider / by Hejmanowski, Chris,1971-(CARDINAL)404010;
"After Fin Canty, a thirty-six year old professor of particle physics, is killed in a seemingly random car jacking, he uncovers answers to some of science's biggest mysteries. These answers, promulgated through his new vantage point, accompany the knowledge of his daughter Eva's banishment to hell for sins mankind has deemed unforgivable. Abandoning his own salvation, Fin descends into hell to save his daughter. Through his indomitable will, Fin's journey forges the creation of a white hole with CERN's collider, channeling matter from beyond and offering proof of the afterlife. In a final struggle that spans both continents and planes of existence, one man's journey to rescue his daughter will reveal the ultimate power of human will and restore faith to the world."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Fiction.; Colliders (Nuclear physics); Nuclear physicists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The contractor : a novel / by MacKinnon, Colin.(CARDINAL)748309;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Fiction.; Nuclear physicists; Nuclear weapons; Terrorists;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Manhattan Project : the making of the atomic bomb / by Cimino, Al,author.(CARDINAL)613997;
"Horrifying, yet scientifically ground-breaking, the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 announced to the world that nuclear weapons were no longer the stuff of imagination. From its inception in 1941, the Manhattan Project saw some of the West's best physicists and engineers develop the most potent armament known to man. In this book Al Cimino explains the events that led to President Roosevelt sanctioning the development of the bomb and recounts the dramatic story of how a gifted and often conflicted group of people devoted themselves to unlocking the secrets of nuclear fission." -- Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Manhattan Project (U.S.); Nuclear fission; Nuclear physicists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The bomb in my garden : the secret of Saddam's nuclear mastermind / by Obeidi, Mahdi,1944-(CARDINAL)464414; Pitzer, Kurt.(CARDINAL)687394;
The bomb in my garden -- Early ambitions -- The centrifuge -- Saddam's grip -- Shopping in Europe -- The crash program -- Nuclear hide and seek -- The dark years -- The drums of war -- The time capsule.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Obeidi, Mahdi, 1944-; Nuclear nonproliferation.; Nuclear physicists; Nuclear weapons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Radiance / by Scholz, Carter.(CARDINAL)683971;
Subjects: Political fiction.; Nuclear weapons industry; Physicists;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age / by Schwartz, David N.,1956-author.(CARDINAL)351426;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-436) and index.Part one: Becoming Fermi. Prodigy ; Pisa ; Germany and Holland ; Quantum breakthroughs ; Of geckos and men -- Part two: The Rome years. Family life ; The Rome School ; Beta rays ; Goldfish ; Physics as soma ; The Nobel Prize -- Part three: The Manhattan Project. The New World ; Splitting the atom ; Fermi meets the Navy ; Piles of graphite ; The move to Chicago ; "We're cookin'!" ; Xenon-135 ; On a mesa ; An unholy Trinity -- Part four: The Chicago years. Return to Chicago ; In the public eye ; A patent fight ; Brilliant teacher, beloved mentor ; Travels abroad ; Home to die ; Fermi's legacy."In December 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved a milestone in human history: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi, the father of the nuclear age. But as David N. Schwartz shows in this groundbreaking biography, Fermi's impact goes well beyond this epochal event. With his theory of beta decay and his development of quantum statistics, Fermi revolutionized modern physics. Straddling the classical and quantum ages, equally at ease with elegant mathematics and grubby experiments, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything--at least about physics. In [this book], Schwartz draws from newly discovered archival material and exclusive interviews with those who knew Fermi to reveal the complex figure behind these historic contributions. A reluctant member of the Italian Fascist party, Fermi escaped to New York when Mussolini promulgated a series of anti-Semitic laws that put his wife, Laura, at risk. A citizen of an Axis power at the heart of the US government's most secret war effort, the Manhattan Project, he became one of its leading lights. A less-than-ideal father and husband, he was nevertheless one of history's greatest scientific mentors and teachers. He was also a deep thinker, as perspicacious about extraterrestrial life as he was about quantum field theory. The Last Man Who Knew Everything brings Fermi's brilliant, complex genius to life in a profound and consuming read."--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Biographies.; Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.; Physicists; Physicists; Nuclear physicists; Nuclear physicists;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 16
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Half life : the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy / by Close, F. E.(CARDINAL)504436;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Pontekorvo, B. (Bruno), 1913-1993.; Nuclear physicists; Nuclear physicists; Spies; Spies;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Trinity : a novel / by Hall, Louisa,1982-author.(CARDINAL)400951;
"From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer--father of the atomic bomb--as told by seven fictional characters J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray them under questioning. He repeatedly lied about love affairs. And he defended the use of the atomic bomb he helped create, before ultimately lobbying against nuclear proliferation. Through narratives that cross time and space, a set of characters bears witness to the life of Oppenheimer, from a secret service agent who tailed him in San Francisco, to the young lover of a colleague in Los Alamos, to a woman fleeing McCarthyism who knew him on St. John. As these men and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncovering deep and often unsettling truths about their own lives. In this stunning, elliptical novel, Louisa Hall has crafted a breathtaking and explosive story about the ability of the human mind to believe what it wants, about public and private tragedy, and about power and guilt. Blending science with literature and fiction with biography,Trinity asks searing questions about what it means to truly know someone, and about the secrets we keep from the world and from ourselves"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967; Nuclear physicists; Atomic bomb;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The Swiss courier : a novel / by Goyer, Tricia.(CARDINAL)353117; Yorkey, Mike.(CARDINAL)357778;
She's risking her life to save a man she doesn't know. But whom can she trust along the way? It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich after an attempt on Hitler's life. Gabi Mueller is a young woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) in Switzerland. When she is asked to put herself in harm's way to safely "courier" a German scientist who is working on the atomic bomb out of enemy territory, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Women intelligence officers; Nuclear physicists; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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