Proceedings of the Atoms for Peace Awards 1957-1969: A Memorial to Henry Ford and Edsel Ford

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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.

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