| Description |
xiv, 818 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Part I : 1904-1926 -- "Amerika, du hast es besser" : Oppenheimer's German Jewish background -- Childhood -- First love : New Mexico -- Harvard -- Cambridge -- Part II : 1926-1941 -- Gö̈ttingen -- Postdoctoral fellow -- An American school of theoretical physics -- Unstable cores -- Fission -- Part III : 1941-1945 -- In on the secret -- Los Alamos 1 : security -- Los Alamos 2 : implosion -- Los Alamos 3 : heavy with misgiving -- Part IV : 1945-1967 -- The insider scientist -- The booming years -- Massive retaliation -- Falsus in uno -- An open book? |
| Summary |
Robert J. Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
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Atomic bomb -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Physicists -- Germany -- Biography.
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Physicists -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780224062626 (hbk.) |
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