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Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century is becoming more popular than platinum. Its nucleus is so heavy that it's highly unstable and radioactive. If destroyed apart, it unleashes the great electricity within the atom—the most controversial kind of energy ever found out.

Set against the darkening shadow of World Conflict II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the storyplot of the brutal competition among the day's top scientists to funnel nuclear electricity. The intensely influenced Marie Curie determined radioactivity. The College or university of Berlin team of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner--he an upright, politically conservative German chemist and she a soft-spoken Austrian Jewish theoretical physicist--achieved the most impressive discoveries in fission. Curie's child, Irène Joliot-Curie, raced against Meitner and Hahn to break the secret of the splitting of the atom. As the conflict raged, Niels Bohr, a founder of modern physics, possessed a dramatic meeting with Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist responsible for the Nazi project to conquer the Allies to the bomb. And lastly, in 1942, Enrico Fermi, a prodigy from Rome who possessed fled the conflict to america, unleashed the first nuclear chain reaction in a racquetball court at the College or university of Chicago.

At a period when the earth is again met with the perils of nuclear armament, Amir D. Aczel’s absorbing storyline of a rivalry that improved the course of history is really as thrilling and suspenseful as it is medically revelatory and newsworthy.

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