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Energy in Physics, War and Peace

A Festschrift Celebrating Edward Teller’s 80th Birthday

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  • © 1988

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  1. Hans Mark

    1. University of Texas System, Austin, USA

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  2. Lowell Wood

    1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

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Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 30)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Foreword

    1. Foreword

      • Hans Mark, Lowell Wood
      Pages 1-6

    2. An Appreciation of the 60th Birthday of Edward Teller

      • Eugene P. Wigner
      Pages 7-12

  3. Physics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. On the Prevalence of the Gamow-Teller Transition

      • Stewart D. Bloom
      Pages 15-37

    3. The Light Nuclei

      • Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
      Pages 39-47

    4. Nuclear Giant Resonances — a Historical Review

      • B. L. Berman
      Pages 49-85

    5. Calculating the Interaction Between Atomic Nuclei

      • M. S. Weiss
      Pages 87-100

    6. Nanosecond Matter

      • John Archibald Wheeler
      Pages 101-128

    7. Prospects for Further Unification

      • Yuval Ne’eman
      Pages 129-147

    8. Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics: Introducing the Landau Number

      • George F. Chapline, Alex Granik
      Pages 149-156

    9. Inertial Confinement Fusion

      • John H. Nuckolls, Lowell L. Wood
      Pages 157-158

  4. Planetary Physical Astrophysics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. The Computational Physics of the Global Atmosphere

      • C. E. Leith
      Pages 161-173

    3. Stellar X-Ray Sources

      • J. I. Katz
      Pages 175-203

  5. New Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Biomicroholography: An Emerging Technology

      • Johndale C. Solem, George F. Chapline
      Pages 207-219

    3. Nuclear Explosives as an Engineering Tool

      • Wilson K. Talley, Carl R. Gerber
      Pages 221-236

    4. Advances in Laser Isotope Separation

      • Irving P. Herman, Anthony F. Bernhardt
      Pages 237-281

    5. Earthbreak A Review of Earth-to-Space Transportation

      • Roderick A. Hyde
      Pages 283-307
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About this book

Writing even in overview of more than a half-century of professional life of a giant of twentieth century science and technology such as Edward Teller is a daunting task. We ask in advance the reader's pardon for passing over quickly or omitting entirely aspects of Teller's life and work which may seem of major significance but which we, due to differences of perspective or knowledge, speak too little or not at all. We refer those interested in greater depth to the excellent biography by Stanley Blumberg and Gwen Owens, The Life and Times of Edward Teller, and we have (with his permission) printed Professor Eugene Wigner's An Appreciation On the 60th Birthday of Edward Teller immediately after this foreword, so that the reader may consider the perspective of one of Teller's most illustrious contemporaries more than two decades ago. Edward Teller was born in Budapest, Hungary on January 15,1908. While his childhood was spent in the twilight of the Victorian age and its abrupt conclusion in the Great War and his youth in its especially turbulent after­ math in central Europe, he doesn't bear visible scars from it.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas System, Austin, USA

    Hans Mark

  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

    Lowell Wood

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