Blumberg stanley a (18 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with spotting. DJ has been laminated with tear to front.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. DJ VG (sev. small edge tears). 1st Printing. Size: Large Octavo.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 492 pages; Xvii, 492 p. , [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Teller, Edward, 1908-2003. Physics. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 492 pages; Xvii, 492 p. , [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Teller, Edward, 1908-2003. Physics. 1 Kg.…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (physicists, biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Physicists, Biography) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

, Blumberg, Stanley A. / Panos, Louis G. Edward Teller: giant of the golden age of physics: a biography. New York: Scribner's, 1990, 8pp of plates, xiv, 306pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth. Dust-jacket design by Marek Antoniak. 9780684190426 ISBN 0684190427.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xvii, [1], 492, [2] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Index. Ex-library with usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to boards, book cocked, edges worn. Stanley Blumberg was a noted science writer who published widely on technical and policy subjects. Gwinn Owens was a writer, editorialist, and correspondent long associated with the Westinghouse Broadcasting Group. Derived from a New York Times review of The Life and Times of Edward Teller. By Stanley A. Blumberg and Gwinn Owens. If the tragedy of our age, as Ralph Lapp laments, "is that at the very time when science has reached the position where it can enormously improve man's life, its main thrust has been turned to destructive applications," then Teller's career embodies that tragedy. An exceptionally gifted physicist, Teller was turned by the exigencies of World War II from the pursuit of knowledge to its military application. The cold war transformed this temporary diversion into a permanent preoccupation. The results of his work helped to create the macabre international system we have lived with for more than two decades. Winston Churchill described its essential nature in 1955 to the House of Commons: "Then it may well be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where Martin Sherwin, member of the history department at Princeton University, is the author of "A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance," winner of the Stuart Bernath prize. safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation." Teller's major contribution to the arms race is a multimegaton hydrogen bomb, a weapon he pursued almost from the moment in the autumn of 1941 when he heard Enrico Fermi speculate that a fission explosion might be used to initiate a fusion reaction. He brooded about this problem during the war while working on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, became increasingly bitter about a lack of support for it afterwards, and never forgave the H bomb's opponents, especially J. Robert Oppenheimer, for their opposition. When President Truman endorsed thermonuclear research program in January 1950, several months after the Soviet Union's unexpected first atomic bomb, Teller committed his prestige to the development of an H bomb. On May 8, 1951, the U.S. ignited the first thermonuclear reaction on earth. Teller's goal was then within reach. For his contributions to the H bomb Teller is clearly of interest to historians of technology; for his influence on national security policy during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations he is a historical figure important to all. Teller's influence is recognized by those who lament it as well as by those who applaud it. In the judgment of the distinguished Nobel Prize winning physicist I. I. Rabi, "He's a danger to all that's important. I do really believe it would have been a better world without Teller." To Nelson Rockefeller, on the other hand, an early advocate of Teller's bomb shelter program, Teller is "an individual of energy, dedication, and genius so extraordinary as to . . . leave me eternally in his debt for the services he has rendered mankind.". Sybil Meyersburg (Blumberg photograph) and Paul W. (illustrator).…

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked else fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny tear at the crown.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. 1st Edition. xviii, 492, [2] p. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Index. No dust jacket present. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Stanley A. Blumberg, was a Baltimore author, inventor, and Middle Eastern expert who collaborated on two books about nuclear physicist Edward Teller. Mr. Blumberg produced a torrent of articles over the years that encompassed a wide variety of issues from science to economics and the affairs of Israel. Gwinn F. Owens, was a retired editor and editorial writer who made Baltimore's The Evening Sun's op-ed page a popular feature with readers and contributors. Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", even though he claimed he did not care for the title. Teller made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy (the Jahn Teller and Renner Teller effects), and surface physics. His extension of Fermi's theory of beta decay (in the form of the so-called Gamow Teller transitions) provided an important stepping stone in the applications of this theory. The Jahn Teller effect and the BET theory have retained their original formulation and are still mainstays in physics and chemistry. Teller also made contributions to Thomas Fermi theory, the precursor of density functional theory, a standard modern tool in the quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules. In 1953, along with Nicholas Metropolis and Marshall Rosenbluth, Teller co-authored a paper which is a standard starting point for the applications of the Monte Carlo method to statistical mechanics. Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early member of the Manhattan Project charged with developing the first atomic bombs. During this time he made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until after World War II. After his controversial testimony in the security clearance hearing of his former Los Alamos colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer, Teller was ostracized by much of the scientific community. He continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. He was a co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and was both its director and associate director for many years. In his later years he became especially known for his advocacy of controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using thermonuclear explosives. He was a vigorous advocate of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality, and is considered one of the inspirations for the character Dr. Strangelove in the 1964 movie of the same name. Presumed First Edition, First Printing, but with no printing line on verso, it may be a book club edition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Printing [stated]. xiv, 306 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. slight wear to DJ. Known as father of the American H-Bomb, Teller continues to play a crucial role in U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Born a Hungarian Jew in 1908, the young physicist studied with such greats as Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr. Fleeing Nazism, he became a member of the Manhattan Project team which developed the world's first atomic bomb. Stanley A. Blumberg was a Baltimore author, inventor and Middle Eastern expert who collaborated on two books about nuclear physicist Edward Teller. It was on a visit to Israel that Mr. Blumberg noticed Dr. Teller standing outside of a Tel Aviv hotel, introduced himself to the man often called the father of the hydrogen bomb, and asked why no one had written his biography. Dr. Teller said he was far too controversial, that no one would ever publish a book about his life and then challenged Mr. Blumberg to do the project. The result was "Energy and Conflict," co-authored with Gwinn fTC Owens, a former Evening Sun op-ed page editor. It was published in 1976, and became a Book-of-the Month Club alternate selection. In 1990, he turned out a second biography, "Edward Teller," with co-author Louis G. Panos, a former Evening Sun editorial page editor. "He took on an unpopular subject in an unpopular atmosphere because he felt it was worth doing. His work gave credence to a cloudy subject," Mr. Panos said. Lou Panos covered 40 sessions of the Maryland General Assembly during his 60 years as a working journalist. Panos started his career in high school as a teletype attendant for the Associated Press. He spent 20 years at AP, mostly in Baltimore, but he also covered federal agencies in Washington including the White House and the Justice Department when Bobby Kennedy was attorney general. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Teller continues to play a crucial role in U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Born a Hungarian Jew in 1908, the young physicist studied with such greats as Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr. Fleeing Nazism, he became a member of the Manhattan Project team which developed the world's first atomic bomb. Despite opposition from Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project's top scientist, Teller persuaded President Truman to develop the hydrogen bomb; history backs up his position on the H-bomb, note the authors, as we now know that the Soviets exploded a thermonuclear device before the U.S. did. Instrumental in founding California's Lawrence Livermore Research Laboratory, Teller was at the time this was published the leading scientific proponent of building strategic defenses against Soviet nuclear attack. Blumberg and Panos, a Baltimore Sun columnist, have done a thorough job of reconstructing the life of this complex man. Barbara Haddock (Author photographs) (illustrator).…