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Robert Oppenheimer: a life inside the center

By Monk , J. Robert , Ray;Oppenheimer

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2013
ISBN
9780385504133, 0385504136
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
10 MB (10501478 bytes)
Edition
1st American ed
Pages
1 downloadable text file\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1904-1967;Physicists -- United States -- BiograAtomic bomb;Atomic bomb--United States--History--2J. Robert

Description

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?;An exploration of the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and his contributions to the revolution in twentieth-century physics.

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