{"product_id":"the-martians-of-science-five-physicists-who-changed-the-twentieth-century-9780195178456","title":"The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century","description":"If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. From Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey were an extraordinary group of talents: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics; Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible, initiated the Manhattan Project, but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms; von Neumann could solve difficult problems in his head and developed the modern computer for more complex problems; von Kármán became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing the scientific basis for the U.S. Air Force; and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial \"Star Wars\" initiative of the 1980s. Each was fiercely opinionated, politically active, and fought against all forms of totalitarianism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIstván Hargittai, as a young Hungarian physical chemist, was able to get to know some of these great men in their later years, and the depth of information and human interest in \u003cem\u003eThe Martians of Science\u003c\/em\u003e is the result of his personal relationships with the subjects, their families, and their contemporaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Istvban Hargittai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.52w x 1.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195178456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScience Books \u0026amp; Films\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2007 pg. 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScience Books \u0026amp; Films Best Bks\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2008 pg. 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIstv?n Hargittai\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Chemistry and head of the George A. Olah PhD School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and research professor at E ?tv ?s University. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and member of the Academia Europaea (London). He holds a PhD degree from E ?tv ?s University, D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and honorary doctorates from Moscow State University, the University of North Carolina, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has lectured in some 30 countries and taught at several universities in the United States. He has published extensively on structural chemistry and on symmetry-related topics. His books include the \u003cem\u003eCandid Science\u003c\/em\u003e series of his collected interviews with famous scientists, \u003cem\u003eThe Road to Stockholm\u003c\/em\u003e about the Nobel Prize, and \u003cem\u003eOur Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, which includes a considerable amount of autobiographical material. He and his fellow professor wife live in Budapest. Their grown children, both PhDs, live in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42920949612659,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":161.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f86db1a1-88f2-4dd1-8447-097ac86c23f6.jpg?v=1742382610","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-martians-of-science-five-physicists-who-changed-the-twentieth-century-9780195178456","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}