University of California Press, Date: 1992. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Crisp, clean pages with no owners' marks; hard cover shows a small pink spot at the bottom left front and a little softening at spine ends, and dust jacket is noticeably faded over the spine with some crimping at the spine head, otherwise well-kept. [xxxiv], 98pp. incl. index. 1992. University of California Press ISBN 0520075765 9780520075764 [US]

University of California Press 1992 Annotated. Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Crisp, clean pages with no owners' marks; hard cover shows a small pink spot at the bottom left front and a little softening at spine ends, and dust jacket is noticeably faded over the spine with some crimping at the spine head, otherwise well-kept. [xxxiv], 98pp. incl. index.

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Berkeley: University of California Press, Date: 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxxiii, [1], 98, [4] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Formulae. Endnotes. Appendix I: The Frisch-Peierls Memorandum. Appendix II: Biographical Notes. Index. Robert Serber (March 14, 1909 - June 1, 1997) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer. The New York Times called him "the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb." He was recruited for the Manhattan Project in 1941, and was in Project Alberta on the dropping of the bomb. When the Los Alamos National Laboratory was first organized, Oppenheimer decided not to compartmentalize the technical information among different departments. This increased the effectiveness of the technical workers in problem solving, and emphasized the urgency of the project in their minds, now they knew what they were working on. So it fell to Serber to give a series of lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project. The primer was declassified in 1965. Serber developed the first good theory of bomb assembly hydrodynamics. Serber's wife was appointed by Oppenheimer to head the technical library at Los Alamos, where she was the only wartime female section leader. Serber was with the first American team to ...