Recently I have encountered a book which on its cover announces itself to be Electromagnetic Radiation And The Mechanical Reactions Arising From It, Being An Adams Prize Essay In The University Of Cambridge, by George Adolphus Schott, first published in 1912.


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Having just published some Manhattan Project history myself, I have been watching, with grim fascination, the unraveling of Charles Pellegrino's book Last Train to Hiroshima.

Here's a good roundup of events from Hillel Italie of the Associated Press.

On 19 January, the New York Times published a favorable review of the book along with an excerpt ( Read more... )