Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-396) and index.
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Introduction : charisma, self, and sociological biography -- Struggling for self -- Confronting the world -- King of the hill -- Against time -- Power and vocation -- "I was an idiot" -- The last intellectual?
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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 Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons and the state.
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Title
Oppenheimer.
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9780226798455
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Oppenheimer, J. Robert,1904-1967.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert,1904-1967.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert,1904-1967.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Atomic bomb-- United States-- History.
Physicists-- United States, Biography.
Science and state-- United States.
Science-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Scientists-- Intellectual life-- 20th century.
Bombe atomique-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
Physiciens-- États-Unis, Biographies.
Politique scientifique et technique-- États-Unis.