The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature Series) - Softcover

Canaday, John

 
9780299168544: The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature Series)

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John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr&;s "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe&;s Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists&; descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard&;s post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins.

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John Canaday is a prize-winning poet and playwright who has been a Watson Fellow and the Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University. He tutors students in literature, writing, history, mathematics, and physics.

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ISBN 10:  0299168506 ISBN 13:  9780299168506
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000
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