Robert Oppenheimer a life inside the center
"Revered biographer Ray Monk solves the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and brilliantly illuminates his contribution to the revolution in twentieth-century physics. In Robert Oppenheimer, Ray Monk delves into the rich and complex intellectual life of America's most...
| Main Author: | Monk, Ray. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Anchor Books/Random House,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Anchor books edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: 1904-1926. "Amerika, du hast es besser": Oppenheimer's German Jewish background
- Childhood
- First love: New Mexico
- Harvard
- Cambridge
- Part two: 1926-1941. Göttingen
- Postdoctoral fellow
- An American school of theoretical physics
- Unstable cores
- Fission
- Part three: 1941-1945. In on the secret
- Los Alamos 1: security
- Los Alamos 2: implosion
- Los Alamos 3: heavy with misgiving
- Part four: 1945-1967. The insider scientist
- The booming years
- Massive retaliation
- Falsus in uno
- An open book?