14. Biographies, 1923-1991.
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| 2689 BARNETT, LINCOLN. "J. Robert Oppenheimer. No. 1 Thinker on Atomic Energy." IN: Life, Vol. 27, No. 15, pp. (120)-138. 148 pages. Illustrated. Folio, pictorial wrappers with fine portrait of Oppenheimer
on front cover. Chicago: Time, Inc. October 10, 1949
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Extensive biographical profile of Oppenheimer. This issue also includes the Editorial "Atomic Control. It is More Necessary
and Seemingly Less Attainable than Ever."
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| 2690 BERNSTEIN, JEREMY. Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy. 212 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Basic Books. 1980
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First serialized in The New Yorker.
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| 2691 BLUMBERG, STANLEY A. & GWINN OWENS. Energy and Conflict. The Life and Times of Edward Teller. 492 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: Putnam's. 1976
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| 2962 BOHR, NIELS. Niels Bohr; his life and work as seen by his friends and colleagues. 1st English edition. 355 pages. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co.;
New York: Wiley. 1967
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Include the following contributors: Childhood and youth. The decisive years, 1911-1918, by L. Rosenfeld and E. Rudinger.-
Glimpses of Niels Bohr as scientist and thinker, by O. Klein.- Quantum theory and its interpretation, by W. Heisenberg.- Recollections
from the years 1929-1931, by H. B. G. Casimir. - Niels Bohr in the thirties, by L. Rosenfeld. - The interest is focusing on
the atomic nucleus, by O. R. Frisch. - The forties and the fifties, by S. Rozental. - The war years and the prospects raised
by the atomic weapons, by A. Bohr. - Reminiscenses from the post-war years, by A. Pais. - Niels Bohr and his youngest disciples,
by J. Kalckar. - Review of International scientific collaboration, by V. F. Weisskopf. - Niels Bohr and the Royal Danish Academy
of Sciences and Letters, by J. Pedersen. - Niels Bohr and the Danish Atomic Energy Research Establishment, by V. Kampmann.
- Niels Bohr and the Danish community, by M. Pihl. - Fifty years of friendship, by R. Courant. - The versatility of Niels
Bohr, by P. A. M. Dirac.
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| 2963 BOORSE, HENRY A. (HENRY ABRAHAM), LLOYD MOTZ, AND JEFFERSON HANE WEAVER. The atomic scientists: a biographical history. 472 pages. New York: Wiley. (Wiley science editions). 1989
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| 2694 BORN, MAX. My Life & My Views. Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen. 216 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. New York: Scribner's. 1968
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| 2695 CHEVALIER, HAAKON. Oppenheimer. The Story of a Friendship. 219 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Braziller. 1965
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| 2696 CHEVALIER, HAAKON. Oppenheimer. The Story of a Friendship. 204 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST POCKET BOOK EDITION. New York: Pocket Books. 1966
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| 2697 CHILDS, HERBERT. An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence. 576 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Dutton. 1968
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| 2698 COMPTON, ARTHUR HOLLY. Atomic Quest. A Personal Narrative. 370 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Oxford University Press. 1956
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| 2699 CRAWFORD, DEBORAH. Lise Meitner, Atomic Pioneer. 192 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Crown. 1969
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| 2700 CURIE, EVE. Madame Curie. A Biography. Translated by Vincent Sheean. 393 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Garden City: Doubleday. 1937
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Signed by the Author.
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| 2701 CURIE, EVE. Madame Curie. A Biography. Translated by Vincent Sheean. 450 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. New York: Pocket
Books. June 1946
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| 2702 CURIE, MARIE. Pierre Curie. Translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg. 242 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. New York: Macmillan. 1923
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| 2703 DAVIS, NUEL PHARR. Lawrence and Oppenheimer. 384 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1968
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| 2704 EVE, A.S. Rutherford. Being the Life and Letters of the Rt Hon. Lord Rutherford, O.M. Foreword by Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. 451 pages. Illustrated.
8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: Macmillan. 1939
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The definitive biography.
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| 2705 FERMI, LAURA. Illustrious Immigrants. The Intellectual Migration from Europe 1930-1941. 440 pages. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1968
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| 2706 GOLDSMITH, MAURICE. Frederic Joliot-Curie. A Biography. 260 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. London: Lawrence and Wishart. 1976
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| 2707 GOODCHILD, PETER. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Shatterer of Worlds. 301 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1981
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Produced in conjunction with the BBC/WGBH television series "Oppenheimer."
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| 2708 HAHN, OTTO. A Scientific Autobiography. Translated by Willy Ley. Introduction by Glenn T. Seaborg. 296 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH.
New York: Scribner's. 1966
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| 2709 HAHN, OTTO. My Life. The Autobiography of a Scientist. Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. 240 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST
EDITION IN ENGLISH. New York: Herder and Herder. 1970
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Translation of Mein Leben, 1968.
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| 2710 HAHN, OTTO. Vom Radiothor zur Uranspaltung. Eine wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. 156; 47 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Braunschweig: Vieweg. 1962
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Includes complete facsimiles of the 3 seminal Hahn-Strassmann papers.
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| 2711 HIEBERT, RAY & ROSELYN HIEBERT. Atomic Pioneers. Books 1-3. 3 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Oak Ridge: U.S.A.E.C. 1974
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| 2712 HOWORTH, MURIEL. Pioneer Research on the Atom. The Life Story of Frederick Soddy. 352 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. London: New World Publications. 1958
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| 2713 JAFFE, BERNARD. Moseley and the Numbering of the Elements. 178 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Garden City: Doubleday. 1971
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| 2714 KISTIAKOWSKY, GEORGE B. A Scientist at the White House. The Private Diary of President Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Introduction by Charles S. Maier.
448 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press. 1976
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| 2715 LAWREN, WILLIAM. The General and the Bomb. A Biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project. 324 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
New York: Dodd, Mead. 1988
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| 2716 LEVI, HILDE. George de Hevesy. Life and Work. A Biography. 147 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Bristol and Boston: Adam Hilger. 1985
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| 2717 LILIENTHAL, DAVID E. This I Do Believe. 208 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Harper. 1949
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PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Lilienthal to J. Willard Roosevelt.
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| 2718 MCPHEE, JOHN. The Curve of Binding Energy. A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor. 232 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New
York: Farrar, Strauss. 1974
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Outstanding biography of the man who miniaturized the atomic bomb.
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| 2719 MEITNER, LISE. "Max Planck." IN: Kosmos, Band 25, pp. (1)-3. 176 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soener. 1947
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Meitner's obituary of Max Planck.
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| 2720 MEYENN, KARL VON, KLAUS STOLZENBURG & ROMAN U. SEXL, Editors. Niels Bohr 1885-1962. Der Kopenhagener Geist in der Physik. 409 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Braunschweig/Wiesbaden. 1985
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| 2721 MICHELMORE, PETER. The Swift Years. The Robert Oppenheimer Story. 273 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Dodd, Mead. 1969
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| 2722 MOORE, RUTH. Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, & the World They Changed. Illustrated, including drawings by Sue Richert Allen. 436 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Knopf. 1966
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| 2723 MOSS, NORMAN, Klaus Fuchs. The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb. 216 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York: St. Martin's
Press. 1987
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| 2724 OLIPHANT, MARK. Rutherford. Recollections of the Cambridge Days. 158 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 1972
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Foreword by Sir James Chadwick. The Author was a student and co-worker of Rutherford.
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| 2725 OPPENHEIMER. By I.I. Rabi, Robert Serber, Victor F. Weisskopf, Abraham Pais & Glen T. Seaborg. 90 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust
jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Scribner's. 1969
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| 2726 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT. Science and the Common Understanding. 121 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1954
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| 2727 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT. The Open Mind. 146 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1955
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| 2728 OPPENHEIMER, ROBERT: Letters and Recollections. Edited by Alice Kimball Smith & Charles Weiner. 376 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Cambridge:
Harvard. 1980
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| 2729 PAIS, ABRAHAM. Niels Bohr's times: in physics, philosophy, and polity Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press. 1991
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| 2730 PHILLIPS, JOHN ARISTOTLE & DAVID MICHAELIS. Mushroom. The Story of the A-Bomb Kid. 287 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Morrow. 1978
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True story of the Princeton undergraduate who designed a workable atomic bomb using unclassified documents.
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| 2731 PHILLIPS, JOHN ARISTOTLE & DAVID MICHAELIS. Mushroom: The Story of the A-Bomb Kid. 265 pages. 8vo, decorative wrappers. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. New York: Pocket Books. 1979
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| 2732 POLMAR, NORMAN & THOMAS B. ALLEN. Rickover. Controversy and Genius. A Biography. 744 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and
Schuster. 1982
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| 2733 RABI, I.I. My Life and Times as a Physicist. Foreword by Joseph B. Platt. 55 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Claremont, California: Claremont College. 1960
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Text of two lectures at Claremont. SIGNED BY RABI.
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| 2734 RIEDMAN, SARAH R. Men and Women Behind the Atom. 228 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. London and New York: Abelard-Schuman. 1958
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| 2735 RIGDEN, JOHN S. Rabi: Scientist and Citizen. 302 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Basic Books. 1987
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The first full biography of Rabi.
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| 2736 ROUZE, MICHEL. Robert Oppenheimer. The Man and His Theories. Translated by Patrick Evans. 192 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
New York: Paul S. Eriksson. 1965
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| 2737 ROYAL, DENISE. The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. 196 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1969
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| 2738 SEGRE, EMILIO. Enrico Fermi. Physicist. 276 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press. 1970
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The definitive biography, by one of Fermi's colleagues in the Manhattan Project.
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| 2739 TELLER, EDWARD. The Reluctant Revolutionary. 71 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Columbia: U. of Missouri Press. 1964
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The Paul Anthony Brick Lectures Third Series.
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| 2740 THOMSON, GEORGE. J.J. Thomson and the Cavendish Laboratory in his Day. 186 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Garden City: Doubleday. 1965
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| 2741 TRUMAN, HARRY S. Mr. Citizen. 315 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, glassine wrappers, slipcase. New York: Bernard Geis. 1960
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ONE OF 1000 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY TRUMAN. Includes Truman's reflections on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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| 2742 TRUMAN, HARRY S. Public Papers of; April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953. 8 volumes. Large 8vo, cloth. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. 1961-1966
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| 2743 WILLIAMS, ROBERT CHADWELL. Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy. 267 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. New York: Cambridge: Harvard. 1987
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| 2744 YORK, HERBERT. The Advisors. Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb. 175 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. San Francisco: Freeman. 1976
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