Men and Women Behind the Atom by Riedman, Sarah R - 1957

London: The Scientific Book Club, 1957. Black title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and a strip of age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a few marks to back. Dr. Riedman tells us about the men and women who played a part in the discovery of atomic energy, including their childhood, their family environment and their development. Includes Marie and Pierre Curie; J.J. Thomson; Ernest Rutherford; Niels Bohr and Lise Meitner; Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie; Enrico Fermi; Harold Urey; Ernest Lawrence; Arthur Compton; J. Robert Oppenheimer. 153. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.