Energy in Physics, War and Peace

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

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.

• Planet
• X-ray
• astrophysics
• computational physics
• dynamics
• electron
• energy
• fusion
• holography
• hydrodynamics
• isotope
• laser
• physics
• radiation
• stellar

• University of Texas System, Austin, USA

  Hans Mark

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

  Lowell Wood

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