The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Part A: The Scientific Papers, Volume V: Nuclear Energy

Eugene Paul Wigner

ISBN 10: 0387553436 / ISBN 13: 9780387553436

Published by Springer, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Part A: The Scientific Papers, Volume V: Nuclear Energy
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387553436
• ISBN 13: 9780387553436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Eugene Wigner is one of the very few scientists that may safely be described as creators of 20th-century physics. This volume of his Collected Works is devoted to his contributions to nulclear energy. In his introduction and annotations A.M.Weinberg surveys Wigner's contributions to nuclear-reaction physics and nuclear engineering, at the same time giving a glimpse of the early history of nuclear-reactor technology. Wigner himself gave a lively and critical account, which is published in this volume for the first time. Furthermore, Volume V of The Collected Works, which are edited by A. Wightman and J. Mehra, contains forty-two reports and memoranda from 1941 to 1945 and twelve of Wigner's many patents relating to nuclear energy.