Chain Reactions
a hopeful history of uranium
$32.43
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2025
Summary
Chain Reactions: A Global History of Uranium
Tracing uranium’s past and its intersections with our understanding of other radioactive elements, this book aims to disentangle our attitudes and unpick the atomic mindset.
Chain Reactions looks at the fascinating, often-forgotten stories throughout the history of the element, ranging from glassworks to penny stocks, medicines to weapons, and from something to be feared to a powerful source of energy. This global history…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837731992 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837731993 |
| Author: | Lucy Jane Santos |
| Publisher: | Icon Books |
| Imprint: | Icon Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Lucy Jane Santos
Lucy Jane Santos, author of Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium and Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium, is an expert in the history of the twentieth-century with a particular interest in the cultural history of all things nuclear. She is the Executive Secretary of the British Society for the History of Science. Lucy lives in England.
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