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- Publications
- Influence
The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb
- Jeff Hughes
- Engineering
- 2002
'I am become death, destroyer of worlds.' Robert J. Oppenheimer Established in 1942 at the height of the Second World War, the Manhattan Project was a dramatic quest to beat the Nazis to a deadly… Expand
'Modernists with a Vengeance': Changing Cultures of Theory in Nuclear Science, 1920-1930
- Jeff Hughes
- Physics
- 1 September 1998
The strath report: britain confronts the H‐Bomb, 1954–1955
- Jeff Hughes
- Sociology
- 1 September 2003
Late in 1954, the British government convened a secret committee of civil servants to explore the implications of the hydrogen bomb for Britain in a nuclear war. Headed by William Strath, this small… Expand
Prevalence and Correlates of Receiving Medical Advice to Increase Physical Activity in U.S. Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2013-2016.
- M. Zwald, Brian K. Kit, T. Fakhouri, Jeff Hughes, L. Akinbami
- Medicine
- American journal of preventive medicine
- 1 June 2019
INTRODUCTION
National objectives recommend healthcare professionals provide physical activity advice. This study examined health and demographic characteristics associated with receipt of medical… Expand
Plasticine and Valves: Industry, Instrumentation and the Emergence of Nuclear Physics
- Jeff Hughes
- Engineering
- 1998
It is scientific lore that experimental physics before the Second World War relied on ’sealing-wax and string.’ Synonymous with small-scale, benchtop science, ’sealing-wax and string’ feature… Expand
William Kay, Samuel Devons and memories of practice in Rutherford's Manchester laboratory
- Jeff Hughes
- Art
- Notes and Records of the Royal Society
- 20 March 2008
In 1956 and 1957, Samuel Devons FRS, Langworthy Professor of Physics at Manchester University, recorded a series of interviews with William Kay, who had been Chief Steward of the Manchester physics… Expand
Deconstructing the bomb: recent perspectives on nuclear history
- Jeff Hughes
- Political Science
- The British Journal for the History of Science
- 1 December 2004
John Canaday,The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. Pp. xviii+310. ISBN 0-299-16854-9. £19.50. Septimus H. Paul,Nuclear… Expand
1932: the annus mirabilis of nuclear physics?
- Jeff Hughes
- Physics
- 1 July 2000
The year 1932 is widely seen as a turning point in the history of nuclear physics. Read any scholarly history or popular treatment of the subject, and you will almost certainly find reference to a… Expand