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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Martians of Science
    sub title: five physicists who changed the twentieth century
  name:
    name part: Hargittai, István.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 313 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Arrival and departure -- Family origins and early childhood -- Gem and less : gimnázium experience -- Background in Hungary and first transition -- 2. Turning points in Germany -- Theodore von Kármán -- Leo Szilard -- Eugene P. Wigner -- John von Neumann -- Edward Teller -- 4. "To protect and defend" : World War II -- Theodore von Kármán -- Leo Szilard -- Eugene P. Wigner -- John von Neumann -- Edward Teller -- 5. To deter : Cold War -- Theodore von Kármán -- Leo Szilard -- Eugene P. Wigner -- John von Neumann -- Edward Teller -- 6. Being Martian -- Comparisons -- Traits -- Religion and Jewishness -- Being Hungarian -- Epilogue -- Greatness in science -- Had they lived -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Sampler of quotable Martians -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Chronologies -- Index.
  note: István Hargittai.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.
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  subject:
    topic: Physicists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Von Kármán, Theodore
      name part: 1881-1963
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Szilard, Leo
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wigner, Eugene Paul
      name part: 1902-1995
  subject:
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      name part: Von Neumann, John
      name part: 1903-1957
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Teller, Edward
      name part: 1908-2003
  classification: QC15 .H27 2006
  classification: 530.092/2
  identifier: 0195178459 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780195178456 (cloth : alk. paper)
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