F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II
by
Kenneth D. McRae
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero. After 1939 he switched his research to nuclear physics, and is credited with...