Gregory Benford - The Berlin Project

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Benford, Gregory, 1941 author.

Title: The Berlin Project / Gregory Benford.

Description: First edition. | New York : Saga Press, [2017]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016040114 (print) | ISBN 9781481487641 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781481487665 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: World War, 19391945Fiction. | Manhattan Project (U.S.)Fiction. | Atomic bombUnited StatesHistoryFiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Alternative History. | FICTION / Science Fiction / High Tech. | FICTION / Historical. | GSAFD: Alternative histories (Fiction) | Suspense fiction. | Science fiction. | War stories.

Classification: LCC PS3552.E542 B47 2017 (print) | DDC 813/.54dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040114

To the Cohen sisters:

Martine, Elisabeth, and Beatrix

Otto Hahn : German chemist; awarded 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1944 but received award in 1945. Worked with Fritz Strassmann and Lise Meitner.

Karl Cohen (19132012): American chemist; PhD from Columbia University, 1936; Manhattan Project nuclear engineer; US Navy reactor program (under Hyman Rickover); director, General Electric nuclear power program.

Marthe Malartre Cohen : wife of Karl Cohen.

Rachel Paley : mother of Karl Cohen.

Irving Kaplan : American chemist, PhD from Columbia University.

Harold Urey : American chemist; awarded 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Manhattan Project; professor at Columbia University and UC San Diego.

Enrico Fermi : Italian physicist; awarded 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics, Manhattan Project.

Niels Bohr : Danish physicist; awarded 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics, Manhattan Project.

Edward Teller : Hungarian-born physicist; Manhattan Project.

Leo Szilard : Hungarian-born physicist; Manhattan Project.

Albert Einstein : German-born physicist; awarded 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Martine Cohen : daughter of Karl and Marthe Malartre Cohen.

Rabbi Elon Kornbluth : fictional major Jewish figure in Manhattan.

Anton Paley : fictional Jewish refugee from Central Europe.

John Dunning : professor at Columbia University; Manhattan Project physicist.

Rudolf Peierls : German-born British physicist.

Ernest Lawrence : American physicist; awarded 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics, Manhattan Project.

Brigadier General Leslie Groves : builder of Pentagon; director of Manhattan Project.

Otto Frisch : Austrian-British physicist; Manhattan Project.

Moe Berg : American Major League Baseball catcher; United States Office of Strategic Services agent.

Elisabeth Cohen : daughter of Karl and Marthe Malartre Cohen.

John W. Campbell Jr. : science fiction writer and editor.

Sir Arthur Bomber Harris : head of RAF Bomber Command.

Frederick Reines : physicist; awarded 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, Manhattan Project.

Luis Alvarez : physicist; awarded 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics, Manhattan Project.

Freeman Dyson : English physicist.

Sam Goudsmit : Dutch-American physicist.

Richard P. Feynman : American physicist; awarded 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, Manhattan Project.

Paul Dirac : English physicist; awarded 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Major General William Donovan : head of United States Office of Strategic Services.

Paul Scherrer : Swiss physicist.

Werner Heisenberg: German physicist; awarded 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Admiral Wilhelm Canaris : chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service.

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel : German army general, popularly known as the Desert Fox.

Beatrix Cohen : daughter of Karl and Marthe Malartre Cohen.