Since I have a passing acquaintance with Alec, I look at his new projects with interest.\u00a0 Collisions<\/em> is a thorough biography of Luis Alvarez, a physicist who was involved with several interesting discoveries and applications of work.\u00a0 He’s probably best-known as one of the scientists in the Manhattan Project.<\/p>\n The work covers a lot of ground while clocking in around three hundred pages.\u00a0 I read the NY Times review of the book which thought it needed to go into more details about Alvarez’ character and personal actions, but the key thing I realized in reading the acknowledgements is that the first people to be thanked are his children.\u00a0 That kind of access probably comes with a natural inclination to temper the view of the subject (if the children liked\/respected their parent).\u00a0 Since I knew nothing of his accomplishments, I found it to be an even retelling of his life and achievements.\u00a0 I especially appreciated the Afterward that served as a summary\/commentary of the man and his approach to science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I have a passing acquaintance with Alec, I look at his new projects with interest.\u00a0 Collisions is a thorough biography of Luis Alvarez, a physicist who was involved with several interesting discoveries and applications of work.\u00a0 He’s probably best-known as one of the scientists in the Manhattan Project. The work covers a lot of … Continue reading “Collisions<\/i> by Alec Nevala-Lee (2025)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}