The Atom and Eve, ca. 1995.

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The Atom and Eve, ca. 1995.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83017600

An account of the lives of Elsie Walford Blumer McMillan and Edwin Mattison McMillan (born in 1907; died in 1991), centering around their years (1943-1945) at the Los Alamos laboratory, and his subsequent career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, including the awarding of his Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1949).

233 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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