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Grayson, the Star of Physics Collection: The Woman Behind the Atomic Bomb

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  • Categories:Professionals & Academics
  • Language:Italian(Translation Services Available)
  • Publication date:February,2024
  • Pages:228
  • Retail Price:17.31 EUR
  • Size:138mm×215mm
  • Publication Place:Italy
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★This is the collection of the works of Gabriela Grayson, an Italian physicist and popular science writer known as the “star of physics”. She specializes in educating the public about physics and its important tasks in a variety of unique forms, from imaginary conversations with well-known and familiar physicists to exploring forgotten names in the history of physics. Her works have attracted a wide audience with their enjoyment and legibility.
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★"A Quantum Guide for Nonconformists" explains to Newton and to all of us Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and Schrdinger’s cat paradox, the double-slit experiment and quantum entanglement, wave-particle duality and the catastrophe of ultraviolet light.
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★"The Woman Behind the Atomic Bomb" tells the forgotten story of Leona Woods, the physicist who worked with Oppenheimer to build the atomic bomb.
★"Where Anything Could Happen" talks about antimatter and quantum physics: dreaming of the place where there is a chance that anything could happen.

The collection includes 6 books:
I Will Kill Schrödinger’s Cat
A Quantum Guide for Nonconformists. ourney into Physics that Newton Disapproves
Everything Is Connected. Pauli, Jung, Quantum Physics, Synchronicity, Love and All the Rest
Six Women Who Changed the World. The Great Scientists Who Revolutionized Physics
The Woman Behind the Atomic Bomb
Where Anything Could Happen

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The forgotten story of Leona Woods, the physicist who worked with Oppenheimer on the atomic bomb.
“I am Leona Woods. I worked in the Manhattan Project doing the same things as Enrico Fermi, but I was nineteen years younger than him and pregnant.”
“July 16, 1945. It is the morning of X-Day. I am here, on Compania Hill. As soon as we get close to 5:30 a.m. the countdown begins. Tchaikovsky’s music is playing over the intercom to soothe people’s minds as we wait for the detonation.”
These are the words of Leona Woods, the youngest woman who was directly involved in the creation of the atomic bomb. The physicist, actor, and author Gabriella Greison undertook a long journey from Los Alamos to Chicago, from Princeton to Santa Fe; thanks to the research she conducted there, she retraces the famous Manhattan project, giving voice to the main female protagonist of a story that changed the characteristics of human existence. Oppenheimer, Fermi, and Compton are frequently mentioned in the stories about the legendary feat of splitting the atom. But Leona’s presence is usually forgotten. She was a record-breaking twenty-three years old when she was recruited by the Manhattan Project: she was an expert in finding particles by using boron trifluoride detectors, she was a calutron operator, and she was skilled at measuring the neutron flux of the nuclear reactor. With this book, Greison reminds us of the role she played and the value of one of the great women scientists from the past, scientists who are too often forgotten and discriminated against in historical reconstructions.

Author

Gabriella Greison is a physicist, a writer and a professional journalist. After completing a MA degree in Physics at Milan University, she worked at Paris École Polytechnique for two years. She has collaborated with several research institutes and scientific museums and she has contributed to several magazines and dailies. At the moment she is scriptwriter and host of the TV show Pillole di fisica [Physics 101], a weekly show on RaiNews24. Her latest book, The incredible dinner of quantum physicists has been published in 2016. She’s been recently staging her play 1927. Quantum Monologue, where she focuses on the humane side of twentieth-century physics who made history. The play is always highly demanded throughout the country.
She is the author of ten educational books on quantum mechanics, the history of physics, and the great women scientists in history, three topics that are very close to her heart.

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