Memoirs : a twentieth-century journey in science and politics / Edward Teller, with Judith L. Shoolery.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., c2001.Description: xii, 628 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 073820532X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC16.T37 M55 2001
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: I -- I -- 1 How Many Seconds in a Year? (1908-1913) -- 2 Learning About War, Revolution, and Peace (1914-1919) -- 3 The Other Side of the War Years (1914-1919) -- 4 Romanian Interlude (1919-1920) -- 5 My Name is KoK6 (1920-1925) -- 6 How to Become a Physicist the Hard Way (1926-1928) -- 7 Brave New World (1928-1929) -- 8 Journeymen Year in Physics (1929-1930) -- 9 The Pleasures of Small Successes (1930-1933) -- 10 The Future Becomes Obvious (1933) -- 11 Copenhagen (1933-1934) -- 12 The Joy of Being a Foreigner (1934-1935) -- 13 First Years in the United States (1935-1941) -- 14 Fission (1939-1941) -- 15 Academicians Go to Work (1941-1943) -- 16 Settling in at Los Alamos (March 1943-November 1943) -- 17 On and Off the Mesa (November 1943-January 1945) -- 18 An End, A Beginning (1945) -- 19 Give It Back to the Indians (1945-1946) -- 20 Incomplete Answers (1946) -- 21 Among Friends From Home (February 1946-June 1949) -- 22 The Reactor Safeguard Committee (1947-1949) -- 23 Twenty Years Too Soon (June 1949-January 1950) -- 24 Our Doubts Have a Firm Foundation (1950) -- 25 Damn the Torpedoes (November 1950-April 1951) -- 26 Pleasures in the Pacific, Perils at Princeton -- (April 1951-September 1951) -- 27 The Campaign for a Second Weapons Laboratory -- (November 1951-July 1952) -- 28 The New Wheel Spins a Bit (1952-1954) -- 29 Other Nuclear Affairs (1949-1955) -- 30 The Oppenheimer Hearing (April 12, 1954-May 6, 1954) -- 31 Sequelae (June 1954-February 1955) -- 32 Three Friends (August 1954-August 1958) -- 33 Down to Earth (1955-1958) -- 34 The Directorship (1958-1960) -- 35 A Few Lessons in Political Affairs (1955-1960) -- 36 The Temperature of the Cold War Rises (1960-1965) -- 37 Educating Inventive Engineers (1961-1975) -- 38 Uphill (1964-1972) -- 39 Choices, Critical and Otherwise (1973-1979) -- 40 Strategic Defense (1980-1992) -- 41 Other Issues-Public and Private (1980-1990) -- 42 Homecoming (1990-2000) -- Epilogue -- Appendix: In the Matter ofJ. Robert Oppenheimer -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I -- I -- 1 How Many Seconds in a Year? (1908-1913) -- 2 Learning About War, Revolution, and Peace (1914-1919) -- 3 The Other Side of the War Years (1914-1919) -- 4 Romanian Interlude (1919-1920) -- 5 My Name is KoK6 (1920-1925) -- 6 How to Become a Physicist the Hard Way (1926-1928) -- 7 Brave New World (1928-1929) -- 8 Journeymen Year in Physics (1929-1930) -- 9 The Pleasures of Small Successes (1930-1933) -- 10 The Future Becomes Obvious (1933) -- 11 Copenhagen (1933-1934) -- 12 The Joy of Being a Foreigner (1934-1935) -- 13 First Years in the United States (1935-1941) -- 14 Fission (1939-1941) -- 15 Academicians Go to Work (1941-1943) -- 16 Settling in at Los Alamos (March 1943-November 1943) -- 17 On and Off the Mesa (November 1943-January 1945) -- 18 An End, A Beginning (1945) -- 19 Give It Back to the Indians (1945-1946) -- 20 Incomplete Answers (1946) -- 21 Among Friends From Home (February 1946-June 1949) -- 22 The Reactor Safeguard Committee (1947-1949) -- 23 Twenty Years Too Soon (June 1949-January 1950) -- 24 Our Doubts Have a Firm Foundation (1950) -- 25 Damn the Torpedoes (November 1950-April 1951) -- 26 Pleasures in the Pacific, Perils at Princeton -- (April 1951-September 1951) -- 27 The Campaign for a Second Weapons Laboratory -- (November 1951-July 1952) -- 28 The New Wheel Spins a Bit (1952-1954) -- 29 Other Nuclear Affairs (1949-1955) -- 30 The Oppenheimer Hearing (April 12, 1954-May 6, 1954) -- 31 Sequelae (June 1954-February 1955) -- 32 Three Friends (August 1954-August 1958) -- 33 Down to Earth (1955-1958) -- 34 The Directorship (1958-1960) -- 35 A Few Lessons in Political Affairs (1955-1960) -- 36 The Temperature of the Cold War Rises (1960-1965) -- 37 Educating Inventive Engineers (1961-1975) -- 38 Uphill (1964-1972) -- 39 Choices, Critical and Otherwise (1973-1979) -- 40 Strategic Defense (1980-1992) -- 41 Other Issues-Public and Private (1980-1990) -- 42 Homecoming (1990-2000) -- Epilogue -- Appendix: In the Matter ofJ. Robert Oppenheimer -- Index.

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