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Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

Nevala-Lee, Alec

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1324075104
ISBN13: 9781324075103
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a key role in the Manhattan Project, and served as the lead scientific observer at the bombing of Hiroshima. In the decades that followed, he revolutionized particle physics with the hydrogen bubble chamber, developed an innovative X-ray method to search for hidden chambers in the Pyramid of Chephren, and shot melons at a rifle range to test his controversial theory about the Kennedy assassination. At the very end of his life, he collaborated with his son to demonstrate that an asteroid impact was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, igniting a furious debate that raged for years after his death.

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