Jimena Canales

Jimena Canales is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time.

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The Secret PR Push That Shaped the Atomic Bomb's Origin Story

A fear of associating nuclear weapons with poison gas might have influenced which scientists got credit for the “physicists’ bomb.”
- Jimena Canales
- Apr 18, 2017