The Universe In The Light Of Modern Physics (Ownership Signature Of George L. Weil)

New York: W W Norton, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 114 Pp. + 2 Pp Index At Rear. Brown Rough Cloth With Yellow Paper Labels On Spine And Front Cover Printed In Green And Black. Near Fine, Some Rubbing And Browning To Spine Label/ A Book For The Layman. Ownership Signature Of George L. Weil Dated Sept 1931. George Leon Weil ( 1907 - 1995) Was An American Physicist. On December 2, 1942, He Removed The Control Rod From The Chicago Pile-1 Nuclear Reactor, Initiating The First Man-Made, Self-Sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction. Aspart Of The Army Manhattan Project. The First Reactor, Which Became Known As Chicago Pile-1 (Cp-1), Commenced In November 1942, Under The West Stands Of The University Of Chicago's Disused Stagg Field (Chicago Having Abandoned Varsity Athletics In Favor Of Education And Research, Strangely). Cp-1 Was Ready On December 2, 1942; Weil Worked The Final Control Rod, While Fermi Monitored The Neutron Activity. The Pile Went Critical At 15:36, Initiating The First Man-Made, Self-Sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction. Fermi Shut It Down 28 Minutes Later, By Having The Control Rods Re-Inserted. Weil Continued To Work In Reactor Development And In April 1945, Went To The Los Alamos Laboratory, Where He Worked On The Trinity Nuclear Test. In October 1945, He Was Appointed The American Representative At The Chalk River Laboratories In Canada. After The War, Weil Worked For General Electric On Reactor Design. He Then Joined The Atomic Energy Commission (Aec), Where He Became The Assistant Director Of The Reactor Development Division.Weil Left The Aec In 1952, To Become An Independent Consultant, Working For Various Businesses, Government Bodies And Non-Profit Organizations Such As The Friends Of The Earth. In 1955, He Was The Technical Director Of The United States Delegation To The United Nations Conference In Geneva, On The Peaceful Use Of Atomic Energy. He Published A Book, Nuclear Energy: Promises, Promises, In 1971, In Which He Attacked The Nuclear Energy Industry For Its Reliance On Subsidies, Its Technological And Economic Inefficiency, Ineptitude And Its Dangers. (See: Wikipedia).