History of Science & Technology, Including the Worl🌳d of Richard Feynman, and Natural His𓆉tory

History of Science & Technology, Including the World of Richa🦂rd Feynman, and Natural History

[Feynman, Richard P.]; Smyth, Henry Dewolf. Atomic Energy for Military Purposes...

Feynman's father's personal copy of the famed "Smyth Report", signed by Feynman : The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945.

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[Feynman, Richard P.]; Smyth, Henry Dewolf

Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945.

First edition. Octavo (8 x 5.75 inches). Publisher's red cloth, without the fragile dust-jacket. Signed by Feynman in the margin on page 166 where he is referenced in the text, and signed and inscribed by Melville Feynman on front fly-leaf.: "11/4/45 / M.A. Feynman / 1502 Mott Ave / Far Rockaway."

FEYNMAN'S F🔯ATHER'S PERSONAL COPY OF THE SMYTH REPORT, SIGNED BY FEYꦕNMAN

Published in the U. S. six days after Hiroshima, this is "the remarkably full an🍎d candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the American-directed but internationally recr♔uited team of physicists, which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb" (PMM).