Atom and Void : : Essays on Science and Community / / J. Robert Oppenheimer.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the outstanding physicists of his generation. He was also an immensely gifted writer and speaker, who thought deeply about the way that scientific discoveries have changed the way people live and think. Displaying his subtlety of thought and expression as do few othe...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
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Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER ONE. Newton: The Path of Light
- CHAPTER TWO. Science as Action: Rutherford's World
- CHAPTER THREE. A Science in Change
- CHAPTER FOUR. Atom and Void in the Third Millennium
- CHAPTER FIVE. Uncommon Sense
- CHAPTER SIX. The Sciences and Man's Community
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Open Mind
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Space and Time
- CHAPTER NINE. Atom and Field
- CHAPTER TEN. War and the Nations
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Acknowledgments