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Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy - Volume 3
Isaac Asimov
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Enrico Fermi (left) and Niels Bohr discuss physics as they stroll along the Appian Way outside Rome in 1931.
117 NUCLEAR FISSION New ElementsIn 1934 Enrico Fermi began his first experiments involving the bombardment of uranium with neutrons—experiments that were to change the face of the world.
Fermi had found that slow neutrons, which had very little energy, were easily absorbed by atomic nuclei—more easily than fast neutrons were absorbed, and certainly more easily than charged particles were.
Often what happened was that the neutron was simply absorbed by the nucleus. Since the neutron has a mass number of 1 and an atomic number of 0 (because it is uncharged), a nucleus that absorbs a neutron remains an isotope of the same element, but increases its mass number.
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Most people probably know Asimov from his extensive science fiction catalog, but he was also a prolific writer of non-fiction. This book written in 1958 is a great example of how Asimov could take a complicated subject and make it easy for the layman to understand and appreciate. This is in the publ
A brief but incredibly clear account of nuclear energy, the science and its history. From the discovery of the atom and Thomson's plum pudding model, all the way to nuclear fusion and antimatter, through the inevitable explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Asimov manages to make light of what consti
Solid 4 hour walk through humanity’s gradual arrival at understanding and utilization of nuclear energy. Fun and focused.
El maestro Asimov haciendo lo que sabe hacer. Comienza desde el principio, con los griegos descubriendo elementos, y va pasando por la historia (Dalton, Berzelius, Faraday, Curie, Thomson, Rutherford...) hasta llegar a nuestros días, nuestros días significando 1972, que es cuando se publica el libro
This is a short booklet on science fact commissioned by the U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration (Office of Public Affairs). It tells the story of the origins of nuclear physics in terms understandable to an audience with minimal technical background. What were the steps through hist
A LibreVox Audiobook. Narrated by BA McKoy.
An excellent high school or college primer on the atom and nuclear power. Easy to read (or in this case, listen) and comprehend. The book is recorded in 6 sections.
Though there are a very few points which have since been shown to be wrong, they are relative
Physics, especially Nuclear Science, has remained one of my favorite areas of interest, and this book has thrilled me a lot in that regard. Beautiful overviews of nuclear processes without any equations reminds me of Stephen Hawking’s A brief history of time, explaining quantum physics. Although the
An awesome read on the chemistry of the nuclear bomb, told through session after session of history starting from John Dalton with the measuring of atomic weights to none other than Rutherford with atomic fission of alpha particles (yes, I remembered this, I am proud).
Book was an audiobook too! :)