Elemental Germans: Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939-59 - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Christoph LauchtTheme:Aspects (Academic)/Science/Technology Aspects, Chronological Period/1940's, Chronological Period/20th Century, Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:5/15/2012Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230354876ISBN-10:0230354874UPC:9780230354876Book Category:History, Political Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History & Theory, HistoryBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SC1V346DKG
Christoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, in the development of British nuclear culture, especially the practice of nuclear science and the political implications of the atomic scientists' work, from the start of the Second World War until 1959.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230354876ISBN-10:0230354874UPC:9780230354876Book Category:History, Political Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History & Theory, HistoryBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SC1V346DKG
CHRISTOPH LAUCHT Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Leeds, UK. His research interests include the cultural history of the atomic age and the transnational history of the Cold War. He is co-editor of Divided, But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010).
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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