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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780299168544
- ISBN-10: 0299168549
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publish Date: August 2000
- Dimensions: 8.96 x 5.99 x 0.79 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.01 pounds
- Page Count: 340
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