Scientists in Power

Spencer R. Weart

    The Radium Institute

    1. Professors and Politicians

    2. A Campaign for Science

    3. The Uranium Puzzle

    The College De France

    4. Formation of a Team

    5. The Secret of the Chain Reaction

    6. A Contract for Nuclear Energy

    The Laboratory of Nuclear Synthesis

    7. Fission Research on the Eve of War

    8. Conditions for a Working Reactor

    9. Moderators and Ministers

    10. From Research to War Project

    Paris, Cambridge, Chicago, Montreal

    11. In Occupied Paris

    12. Exiles and Industrialists

    13. A Few Tons of Heavy Water

    14. Failures of Secrecy

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  • A photo of the author

author photo © 2004 Christian Bibas

Spencer R. Weart is Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.