burhop eric (6 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 pages; Subjects: Nuclear disarmament -- Great Britain -- Congresses -- Antinuclear movement. 3 Kg.

Series: Cambridge Monographs on Physics. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xiv, 188 pp. 49 figs., 24 tables, 5 plates, bibliog., index. Blind-stamped red cloth, gilt spine. Ownership rubber stamps and jacket flapped pasted to front free end-paper. Very good.

Pamphlet. Zustand: Very Good. 16pp.

First edition. 8vo. xviii, 669, [1] pp. 286 figures, index. Original dark blue gilt-stamped cloth. Former ownership signature of Leonard Searle, Toronto 1957. Very good. Massey returned to University College London, in October 1945 to find it badly damaged by bombing, and the Mathematics Department in dingy temporary accommodation. He was allowed to pick his own lecturers, so he chose Bates, Burhop, Buckingham and Gunn. While they had to teach mathematics, they were free to choose their own research topics, so they chose to research physics, carrying out physical experiments. [Wikip.]. / In May 1944, Burhop became one of three Australian physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bombs. In early 1945, Harrie Massey offered Burhop a position as a lecturer in the Mathematics Department at University College, London. Burhop fostered international cooperation in nuclear physics. "While never formally charged with atomic espionage or so much as directly questioned by investigators, due to his leftist political views, anti-nuclear activism as well as his personal links to exposed Soviet spies, Burhop was the subject of comprehensive surveillance on the part of the UK, US and Australia's counterespionage agencies in the 1940sâ"1950s, a fact that was publicised in 2019." [Wikip.]. PROVENANCE: Leonard Searle (1930-2010) was an English-born American astronomer who worked on theories of the Big Bang. He became director of the Carnegie Observatories in 1989.

236, (2) S. Ill. Orig.-Broschur. Taschenbuch (= Kleine Bibliothek / Bd. 193). - Rücken etwas verfärbt; Papier altersbedingt gebräunt. Stempel auf Fußschnitt. Ansonsten gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Innen absolut sauber.

Taschenbuch, 12*19 cm. Zustand: Gut. 236 S. guter Zustand, Seiten altersgemäß vergilbt 200436513 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.