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Oppenheimer

The Tragic Intellect

Oppenheimer( )
Author: Thorpe, Charles
ISBN:978-0-226-79846-2
Publication Date:Oct 2008
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $34.00
Book Description:

At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making--and unmaking--of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles...
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Book Details
Pages:448
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
Science / Ethics
Political Science / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
History / Military / Nuclear Warfare
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.64 x 0.885 x 0.105 Inches
Book Weight:1.355 Pounds



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