Egon Larsen (13 July 1904 - 17 October 1990) was a German science journalist and writer.

Larsen was born in Munich. He was the author of many books, due to persecution from Nazism he moved to live in Prague and to London in 1938.[1][2]

Publications

  • Men Who Changed The World Stories of Invention and Discovery (1952)
  • Men Under the Sea (1955)
  • You'll See: Report from the Future (1957)
  • Atomic Energy: A Layman's Guide to the Nuclear Age (1958)
  • Ideas and Invention (1960)
  • The Cavendish Laboratory: Nursery of Genius (1962)
  • Atoms and Atomic Energy (1963)
  • Men Who Fought for Freedom (1963)
  • Inventors (1965)
  • The Deceivers: Lives of the Great Imposters (1966)
  • Great Humorous Stories of the World (1967)
  • First with the Truth: Newspapermen in Action (1968)
  • A History of Inventions (1969)
  • Great Ideas in Engineering (1970)
  • Strange Sects and Cults: A Study of Their Origins and Influence (1972)
  • Weimar Eyewitness (1976)
  • New Sources of Energy and Power (1976)
  • Telecommunications: A History (1977)
  • A Flame in Barbed Wire: The Story of Amnesty International (1978)
  • Wit as a Weapon: The Political Joke in History (1980)

References

  1. ↑ McRae, Kenneth D. (2014). Nuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II. Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-19-968718-3
  2. ↑ Silverman, Jerry. (2002). The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art). Syracuse University Press. p. 204. ISBN 0-8156-0708-3
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