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Alvarez adventures of a physicist
| Title | Alvarez adventures of a physicist |
| Names | Alvarez, Luis W. |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. |
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| Book Number | BR007068 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Braille |
| Annotation | The Nobel laureate offers a richly detailed account of his life. His accomplishments included working on both radar and the atomic bomb, developing the hydrogen bubble chamber, probing the Egyptian pyramids by means of cosmic rays, and determing the firing times of the shots that killed President Kennedy. His interactions with such physicists as E. O. Lawrence, Fermi, and Oppneheimer are described. |
| Local Subject | Adult Book - AD |
| Short Book - SH | |
| Biography - Autobiography - ABI | |
| Biography & Autobiography - BIO | |
| General Non-Fiction - GNF | |
| Sciences - SCI | |
| Audience Notes | A |
| LC Subject | Physicists - Biography |
| Call Number | 530.0924 B ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 1987 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : NLS, 1987 (Associated Services for the Blind, transcribing agency. Associated Services for the Blind, distributor) |
| Original Publication | Reproduced from: New York : Basic Books, c1987. |