INVENTORY #132183
Proceedings of the Atoms for Peace Awards 1957-1969: A Memorial to Henry Ford and Edsel Ford
KILLIAN, James R., Jr. (ed.)
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Topics include: the founding of the award; first award to Niels Henrik David Bohr with remarks by D. D. Eisenhower; second award to George Charles De Hevesy with comments by Dag Hammrskjold; third and fourth awards to Leo Szilard, Eugene Paul Wigner, Alvin Martin Weinberg, and Walter Henry Zinn; fifth award to Sir John Cockcroft; sixth award to Vladimir Veksler and Edwin McMillan with a letter by President Kennedy; seventh award to Bertrand Goldschmidt, Wilfrid Lewis and Isidor Rabi; eighth award to Sigvard Eklund, Abdus Salam and Henry Dewolf Smyth with address by U Thant; ninth award to Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Floyd Leroy Culler, Jr., Henry Kaplan, Compton Rennie and Anthony Leonid Turkevich; tenth award to Dwight David Eisenhower. Appendices and name index.
Publication Info
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1978
- Place Published: Cambridge, Mass.
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Very good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: Yes
- Jacket Condition: Very good
- Details:
xxii, 327 p. 25 cm. B&w portrait photos. Cream cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has soiling, small chip in bottom front. Faint spots to text block edge.