Fear and Loathing in Los Alamos
John Ziman, 4 September 1986
Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist
by Rudolf Peierls.
Princeton, 350 pp., £21.20, January 1986,0 691 08390 8 Show More
by Rudolf Peierls.
Princeton, 350 pp., £21.20, January 1986,
A Life in Science
by Nevill Mott.
Taylor and Francis, 198 pp., £15, April 1986,0 85066 333 4 Show More
by Nevill Mott.
Taylor and Francis, 198 pp., £15, April 1986,
Stallion Gate
by Martin Cruz Smith.
Collins Harvill, 287 pp., £10.95, May 1986,0 00 222727 4 Show More
by Martin Cruz Smith.
Collins Harvill, 287 pp., £10.95, May 1986,
Day of the Bomb: Hiroshima 1945
by Dan Kurzman.
Weidenfeld, 546 pp., £14.95, February 1986,0 297 78862 0 Show More
by Dan Kurzman.
Weidenfeld, 546 pp., £14.95, February 1986,
Assessing the Nuclear Age
edited by Len Ackland and Steven McGuire.
Chicago, 382 pp., £21.25, July 1986,0 941682 07 2 Show More
edited by Len Ackland and Steven McGuire.
Chicago, 382 pp., £21.25, July 1986,
“... If a speaker at one of his seminars began to explain how he had come by his ideas, the great Russian theoretical physicist L.D. Landau would stop him with disdain: ‘That is only an item for your autobiography.’ Landau died before reaching the age of reminiscence, but Rudolph Peierls was his friend and Nevill Mott was another near-contemporary. Now that they are both about eighty, they may feel able to risk his posthumous scorn ... ”
