Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center
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Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center
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Edition:
1st American ed.
Physical Description:
xvi, 825 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain as Inside the centre : the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Jonathan Cape ... 2012"--Title page verso.
Summary:
An exploration of the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and his contributions to the revolution in twentieth-century physics.
Contents:
"Amerika, du hast es besser" : Oppenheimer's German Jewish background -- Childhood -- First love : New Mexico -- Harvard -- Cambridge -- Göttingen -- Postdoctoral fellow -- An American school of theoretical physics -- Unstable cores -- Fission -- In on the secret -- Los Alamos 1 : security -- Los Alamos 2 : implosion -- Los Alamos 3 : heavy with misgiving -- The insider scientist -- The booming years -- Massive retaliation -- Falsus in uno -- An open book?
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2013], c2012.
Subject:
| Physicists -- United States -- Biography. |
| Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century. |
| Physicists -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. |
| Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 |
| Ou-pên-hai-mo, 1904-1967 |
| Oppenheimer, Robert, 1904-1967 |
| Oppenheimer, Julius Robert, 1904-1967 |
| A-bomb |
| Atom bomb |
SAILS ISBN:
9780385504072