The UC Berkeley Summer Reading List is an annual compilation of recommended (though not required) readings suggested by Cal faculty, staff, and students as a welcome to incoming freshmen and transfer students.
A remarkable history of the discovery of nuclear fission, which shows how discovery becomes technology, and how technology is interconnected with society, culture, politics, personalities, and (in this case) war.
TERRY JOHNSON Associate Teaching Professor, Vice Chair for Undergraduate Programs, Bioengineering
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Michael Larkin Lecturer, College Writing Programs
Tim Dilworth First Year Coordinator, Library