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Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close
$22.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain. One of the most brilliant scien ...Show more
Nothing: A very short introduction by Frank Close
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very lat ...Show more
Trinity - The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, ...Show more
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain. He was taken onto the Manhattan Project in the USA as a trusted physicist - and was the conduit by which knowledge of the highest classification passed to the Soviet Union. When Truman announ ...Show more
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