(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

FIRST EDITION OF THESE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF ONE OF THE LEADING CONTRIBUTORS TO MODERN PHYSICS. Among many other achievements Frisch is perhaps best known as the discoverer of nuclear fission, which paved the ways to both the atomic bomb and to nuclear power. The stories in this book begin with his childhood in Vienna. The reader will be able to follow both the biography of Frisch's life and the history of atomic science as the stories travel from Berlin to Hamburg, London, Denmark, Los Alamos and Cambridge; learning along the way about atoms, nuclei, energy, the Manhattan Project and more. Item #31345

First Edition. Illustrated throughout, primarily from photographs but also with drawings and sketches. 8vo, publisher's original brick red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. 227 pp. A very fine copy, the book pristine, the jacket is also very fine but for some uniform toning to the spine panel from light.