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J. Robert Oppenheimer :

0195166736 (acid-free paper)

9780195166736 (acid-free paper)

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J. Robert Oppenheimer :

[Book]

a life /

Abraham Pais ; with supplemental material by Robert P. Crease

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2006

xxii, 353 p., [16] p. of plates :

ill. ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-336) and index

First encounters -- Background. Early years -- University studies -- The California professor as teacher -- The California professor as researcher -- Oppenheimer's own opinion on his teaching and research in California -- Personal life in the 1930s -- "The shatterer of worlds" -- In which Oppenheimer enters the world stage -- An atomic scientist's credo -- The Institute prior to Oppenheimer's arrival -- In which Oppenheimer is elected Director of the Institute and Chairman of the GAC -- Oppenheimer's early years as Institute Director -- Oppenheimer and the world of physics, 1946-1954 -- Further on Oppenheimer the man -- Atomic politics in the early postwar years -- Of the first serious enemies and of the first Russian A-bomb -- Of the Superbomb and of spy stories -- The new Super -- Atomic politics in the early 1950s -- In which the excrement hits the ventilator -- In which the news of the hearings is made public -- Open book -- No final judgment -- Insider in exile -- Cloudy mountain peak.

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An illuminating portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer chronicles the story of one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics, from his precocious youth to his seminal role in developing the first atomic bomb, and beyond.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert,1904-1967

Atomic bomb-- United States-- History

Physicists-- United States-- Biography

Pais, Abraham,1918-

Crease, Robert P

20060302094356.0

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