Title:
Robert Oppenheimer : a life inside the center
Author:
Monk, Ray, author.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Inside the centre
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2013]
©2012.
Physical 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.
General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain as Inside the centre : the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Jonathan Cape ... 2012"--T.p. verso.
Language:
English
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?
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9780385504072
Format :
Manuscript
