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2 hours 25 min

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The atomic bomb ended World War II, but its creation was one of the most secretive and controversial projects in human history. Behind closed doors, the world’s greatest scientists—including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Enrico Fermi—raced to develop nuclear weapons before Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. But what really happened in the laboratories and desert testing sites of the ... Read more

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Quantenmechanik – leicht erklärt

Wie die unsichtbare Welt unsere Realität bestimmt

by Orhan Schöwe ...

Narrated by Orhan Schöwe ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Physik leicht erklärt
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40 min

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This is the story of how an American teenager became the youngest person ever to build a working nuclear fusion reactor.By the age of nine, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At eleven, his grandmother’s cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate new ways to produce medical isotopes. And by fourteen, Wilson had built a 500-million-degree reactor and become the youngest ... Read more

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Nuclear Physics

A Very Short Introduction

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3 hours 30 min

Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the nineteenth century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. In this Very Short Introduction, Frank Close gives an account of how this area of physics has progressed, including the recognition of how heavy nuclei are ... Read more

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Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the nineteenth century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. In this Very Short Introduction, Frank Close gives an account of how this area of physics has progressed, including the recognition of how heavy nuclei are
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Midnight in Chernobyl

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Too Big for a Single Mind

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Jai Bharat Jai Jagat Bhag 2 - Anvastra, Anuvidnyan

Race for Nuclear Weapons during World War II, The: The History and Legacy of Both Sides’ Efforts to Build an Atomic Bomb

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History of Nuclear Weapons

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