Download or read book Nuclear Pursuits written by Ruth Fawcett and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear Pursuits is the scientific biography of Wilfrid Bennett Lewis, the physicist who dominated nuclear research and the development of nuclear power in Canada for nearly three decades, from the end of World War II until his retirement in 1973. The development of the CANDU reactor was his most stunning achievement.