Rebecca Priestley

Broschiertes Buch

Mad on Radium

New Zealand in the Atomic Age

Beschreibung

Reveals the alternative history of 'nuclear New Zealand' - a country where there was much enthusiasm for nuclear technology, from the first users of x-rays and radium in medicine; the young New Zealand physicists seconded to work on the Manhattan Project; support for the British bomb tests in the Pacific; plans for a heavy water plant at Wairakei; plans for a nuclear power station on the Kaipara Harbour; and thousands of scientists and medical professionals working with nuclear technology.

Autor

Rebecca Priestley has curated two exhibitions at the National Library Gallery, "The Art of Science" and "Butterflies, Boffins & Black Smokers." She is the coauthor of Atoms, Dinosaurs and DNA, the editor of The Awa Book of New Zealand Science, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Elsie Locke Award, a Ministry of Culture and Heritage New Zealand History Award, and Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Auckland University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781869407278
• ISBN-10: 186940727X
• Artikelnr.: 36282963