Robert Oppenheimer
A Life Inside the Center
New York : Doubleday, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: xvi, 825 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
An exploration of the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and his contributions to the revolution in twentieth-century physics.
Contents:
1904-1926. "Amerika, du hast es besser" : Oppenheimer's German Jewish background ; Childhood ; First love : New Mexico ; Harvard ; Cambridge -- 1926-1941. Göttingen ; Postdoctoral fellow ; An American school of theoretical physics ; Unstable cores ; Fission -- 1941-1945. In on the secret ; Los Alamos 1 : security ; Los Alamos 2 : implosion ; Los Alamos 3 : heavy with misgiving -- 1945-1967. The insider scientist ; The booming years ; Massive retaliation ; Falsus in uno ; An open book?
Subjects:
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Physicists -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Physicists -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780385504072 (hbk.)
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BIOGRAPHY Oppenheimer, J. Robert | Southeast | Biography | In |
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"Originally published in Great Britain as Inside the centre : the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Jonathan Cape ... 2012"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [769]-790) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [769]-790) and index.