About the book

cs only in 1961 and took his doctorate's degree in 1991. As a student he worked at the department of physics at the Medical Faculty in Ljubljana from 1951 onward, while his first real employment was with the company Iskra in 1956 where he worked on the oscilloscope development. He worked at Tektronix, Inc. in Beaverton, Oregon, USA from 1967 to 1970. After returning to Slovenia, he once again worked for Iskra on pH-meters and developed his second patent in this field; in 1975 he worked for Iskra TV Pržan, and for the Jožef Štefan Institute where he developed the electronics for two mass spectrometers and an oxygen meter. From 1989 onward he worked for the Electroinstitut Milan Vidmar and took his doctorate at the University of Ljubljana on the subject of wideband amplifiers. He retired in 1994, but continued working as a consultant for the institute for two more years. He later wrote a book together with his colleague Erik Margan, entitled Wideband Amplifiers, which was published by the German publishing house Springer in 2006. The book went out of stock merely after a year and has been reprinted. A review: In this interesting, easily understandable, intriguing and richly illustrated book that will satisfy even the more demanding readers, Peter Staric takes us through the history, development and technology of the first atomic bomb and the lives of people who designed it, as well as its consequences for the humankind. One of the best true Slovenian popular science books of the past years. Samo Rugelj