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Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center
- Title
- Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center / Ray Monk.
- Author
- Monk, Ray
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 825 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- An exploration of the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and his contributions to the revolution in twentieth-century physics.
- Uniform Title
- Inside the centre
- Alternative Title
- Inside the centre
- Life inside the center
- Subjects
- Physicists > United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Atomic bomb > United States > History > 20th century
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
- Physicists > United States > Biography
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain as Inside the centre : the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Jonathan Cape ... 2012"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [769]-790) and index.
- 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?
- Call Number
- JBE 15-270
- ISBN
- 9780385504072 (hbk.)
- 0385504071 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2012046045
- OCLC
- 828190062
- Author
- Monk, Ray, author.
- Title
- Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center / Ray Monk.
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, [2013]
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [769]-790) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JBE 15-270
