Mad on Radium
New Zealand in the Atomic Age
$104.89
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2012
Summary
In this engaging history, prize-winning author Rebecca Priestley reveals the alternative history of ‘nuclear New Zealand’—a country where there was much enthusiasm for nuclear science and technology. This includes the first users of x-rays and radium in medicine; the young Kiwi physicists seconded to the Manhattan Project; support for British bomb tests in the Pacific; plans for a heavy water plant and a nuclear power station; prospecting for uranium on the West Coast of the South Island; and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869407278 |
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| ISBN-10: | 186940727X |
| Author: | Rebecca Priestley |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 685g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Rebecca Priestley
Jacqueline Fahey was born in Timaru in 1929. A distinguished artist, especially known for her paintings of domestic and suburban life, she is also a writer. Fahey was one of the first New Zealand artists to work explicitly from a woman’s perspective and in the late 1980s she became an influential lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University. Fahey was selected to represent New Zealand at the 1985 Sydney Perspecta and her work was included in the 2007 exhibition 100 Feminist Painters at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
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