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Hardcover Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect Book

ISBN: 0226798453

ISBN13: 9780226798455

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

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Book Overview

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...

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