The National Center for Translation published the book “The era of innocence … nuclear physics between the first and second world wars”, by American Roger Harry Steer, translated by Muhammad Al -Ajmi. This book is not a traditional reference in physics. Rather, it is an epic story that has written lines for hundreds of geniuses and the st and women, which inflaces the enthusiasm of specialists and ordinary readers, and renews their motives to add a new chapter to the endless story of creativity.
*ConflictsThis book makes you a witness to the records and battles that these great people fought to clarify the unknown, and as usual the battles that are the meeting place where love and hatred are mixed and security and fear meet, and feelings are disturbed between joys and sorrows, this book transmits this mix of feelings, as his companions lived while they are raising the ladder of glory, motivating humanity forward with their great achievements, to live with them, to live with them Her tales and facts.
The book refers us to a time when international conflicts were the most severe, in a catastrophic era between two global wars, which came to green and dry, and the people of plowing and offspring, it is the story of cities as its walls tell, and adventures as their heroes narrate, and discoveries as its manufacturers recorded, a human story that tells you about the lives of the founders of nuclear physics, about their origins and environmental and cultural backgrounds Scientific, and shows you the most important aspects of their personalities, the bright and the dark.
You will see the human nature in them, including friendly, arrogant, simple and elegant, and among them is an elderly and a young man who renews his life by integrating between his students, so he remains a young man with a young spirit and young interactions, and even childish sometimes, to live with them as if you are among them, you see them and look at them, you monitor your heart with the joy of discovering in pure hearts related to science, and you see them With their discoveries as a child, he finally found his game after the research was shouted, “I found it.”
You will learn about the reasons for their distinction and their legendary capabilities to overcome their pitfalls and get out of their crises, but sometimes benefiting from them, and know how a person can change, not only his reality, but the face of the whole world, will reveal before you how the fate of the world has changed by a few of the displaced and exiles, who are calling from all parts of the earth to hold the reins of the initiative, and be at the forefront of this flag, to control On the global decision since then.
The author notes that during the two decades between the first and second world wars, the emerging nuclear physics field at the time became the dominant field of experimental and theoretical physics, this era began to discover “Rutherford” for the nuclear nuclear disintegration in 1919 and its classic interpretation of it in 1920, both of which were defined by physicists in Vienna, in 1928 he took “George Jamo” And “Ronald Jurny”, in conjunction with Edward Condon, is the first step out of the classic world, when they set a perception of quantum mechanics theory.
*motiveFour years after 1931, theory and experience changed mainly through the discoveries of industrial radiological activity, these basic discoveries and inventions arose out of the pursuit of nuclear phenomena. The motivation behind any of them was the desire to find a practical application of nuclear energy, and with this motivation the nuclear physicists in the era of innocence between the two world wars lived, and despite this they did not live in isolation, like all human endeavors, the research of nuclear physics reflected the distinguished personalities of physicists, who conducted discoveries, and created inventions.
