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The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer
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The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer Hardcover - 1997 - 1994th Edition

by Weinberg, Alvin M

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  • Title The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer
  • Author Weinberg, Alvin M
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1994th
  • Edition 1994
  • Condition New
  • Pages 291
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, NY
  • Date 1997-05-08
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781563963582
  • ISBN 9781563963582 / 1563963582
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.52 x 1.09 in (24.38 x 16.56 x 2.77 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Nuclear physics - History, Nuclear physicists - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94026684
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

First line

My very first class at the University of Chicago was Herman Schlesinger's Chemistry 101.

From the rear cover

The First Nuclear Era is Alvin Weinberg's autobiography, the memoirs of a most influential American nuclear engineer/physicist. These reminiscences date from the dawning of the nuclear age in the early 1940s to the present. It is the story of one notable scientist's life and times and a look back at one of humankind's most ambitious endeavors: the attempt to harness and safely distribute nuclear power. Weinberg has witnessed and played a major part in many of the defining scientific moments of his era. Here he describes his academic career at the University of Chicago, under the tutelage of Nicolas Rashevsky and Carl Eckart. He recalls his wartime days at the Manhattan Project's Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory where he helped Nobelist Eugene Wigner design the Hanford plutonium producing reactors. He then focuses on what would become the abiding legacy of his professional life: his development of and involvement with nuclear reactors. In discussing both great commercial successes (such as the Light-Water Reactor) and unsuccessful experiments, Weinberg offers an objective critique of the technical and political shortcomings that have haunted the nuclear age. He also demonstrates how the lessons learned from unsuccessful reactors paved the way for later triumphs.