The atom and Eve, [photocopy], [1973?].

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The atom and Eve, [photocopy], [1973?].

Reminiscences of her social and family life as the wife of Nobel laureate, physicist Edwin M. McMillan. Includes descriptions of wartime activities, especially at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; academic life at the University of California Radiation Laboratory; and travels, most of them connected with her husbands awards and scientific meetings. Appended: The Blumer heritage and the McMillan heritage.

[6], 330 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Physicist. Professor of physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1934-1973; and staff member of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (renamed the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1971), 1934-1971, and its director from 1958-1973. Pioneer in development and application of the cyclotron. Died in 1991. From the description of Travel diary kept during the California Institute of Technology Travel Prize Trip across the United States and Europe, 1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83660405 ...