Worlds Within Worlds:
The Story of Nuclear Energy
Volume 1
Atomic Weights · Energy · Electricity
by Isaac Asimov
U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration
Office of Public Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20545
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-189477
1972
Nothing in the history of mankind has opened our eyes tothe possibilities of science as has the development of atomicpower. In the last 200 years, people have seen the coming ofthe steam engine, the steamboat, the railroad locomotive,the automobile, the airplane, radio, motion pictures, television,the machine age in general. Yet none of it seemed quiteso fantastic, quite so unbelievable, as what man has donesince 1939 with the atom ... there seem to be almost nolimits to what may lie ahead: inexhaustible energy, newworlds, ever-widening knowledge of the physical universe.Isaac Asimov
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ISAAC ASIMOV received his academic degrees fromColumbia University and is Associate Professor of Biochemistryat the Boston University School of Medicine. He is aprolific author who has written over 150 books in the past20 years, including about 20 science fiction works, and booksfor children. His many excellent science books for the publiccover subjects in mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry,and biology, such as The Genetic Code, Inside the Atom,Building Blocks of the Universe, Understanding Physics, TheNew Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science, and Asimov’sBiographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
In 1965 Dr. Asimov received the James T. Grady Awardof the American Chemical Society for his major contributionin reporting science progress to the public.
