Worlds Within Worlds ~ The Story of Nuclear Energy ~ Volume 1

by Isaac Asimov

Overview

Nothing in the history of mankind has opened our eyes to the possibilities of science as has the development of atomic power. In the last 200 years, people have seen the coming of the steam engine, the steamboat, the railroad locomotive, the automobile, the airplane, radio, motion pictures, television, the machine age in general. Yet none of it seemed quite so fantastic, quite so unbelievable, as what man has done since 1939 with the atom ... there seem to be almost no limits to what may lie ahead: inexhaustible energy, new worlds, ever-widening knowledge of the physical universe. Isaac Asimov
VOLUME 1
Atomic Weights
Electricity
Units of Electricity
Cathode Rays
Radioactivity
The Structure of the Atom
Atomic Numbers
Isotopes
Energy
The Law of Conservation of Energy
Chemical Energy
Electrons and Energy
The Energy of the Sun
The Energy of Radioactivity

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151156042
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	09/26/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	798,088
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Isaac Asimov began his Foundation series at the age of 21, not realizing that it would one day be considered a cornerstone of science fiction. During his legendary career, Asimov penned over 400 books on subjects ranging from science to Shakespeare to history, though he was most loved for his award-winning science fiction sagas. Asimov entertained and educated readers of all ages for close to five decades, until he died, at the age of 72, in April 1992.

Date of Birth:

January 20, 1920

Date of Death:

April 6, 1992

Place of Birth:

Petrovichi, Russia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Columbia University, B.S. in chemistry, 1939; M.A. in chemistry, 1941; Ph.D. in biochemistry, 1948