Adventures in the Atomic Age; From Watts to Washington

Seaborg, Glenn T.; Eric Seaborg

ISBN 10: 0374299919 ISBN 13: 9780374299910

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2001

Language: English

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24 x 16 cm. 312pp. Hardcover copy in dust jacket. Autobiography of the nuclear chemist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesis, discovery and investigation of 10 transuranium elements. Namesake of the element Seaborgium, atomic number 106.

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Adventures in the Atomic Age; From Watts to Washington

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

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0374299919

ISBN 13

9780374299910

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Hardcover

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First edition.

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Fine in Fine dust jacket

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The renowned physicist describes his Nobel Prize-winning career, his work with the Manhattan Project, his discovery of the element that makes atomic bombs explode, and his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

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Eric Seaborg, a freelance writer, worked with his father on the preparation of this book and completed it after Professor Seaborg's death in June 1999.

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