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050 00 $aQC16.O62$bM66 2013
082 00 $a530.092$aB$223
084 $aBIO006000$aBIO015000$aHIS036060$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMonk, Ray.
245 10 $aRobert Oppenheimer :$ba life inside the center /$cRay Monk.
250 $aFirst American Edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2012
300 $axvi, 825 pages, [32] pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Revered biographer Ray Monk solves the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and brilliantly illuminates his contribution to the revolution in twentieth-century physics. In Robert Oppenheimer, Ray Monk delves into the rich and complex intellectual life of America's most fascinating and elusive scientist, the father of the atomic bomb. As a young professor at Berkeley, the wealthy, cultured Oppenheimer finally came into his own as a physicist and also began a period of support for Communist activities. At the high point of his life, he was chosen to lead the Manhattan Project and develop the deadliest weapon on earth: the atomic bomb. Upon its creation, Oppenheimer feared he had brought mankind to the precipice of self-annihilation and refused to help create the far more powerful hydrogen bomb, bringing the wrath of McCarthyite suspicion upon him. In the course of famously dramatic public hearings, he was stripped of his security clearance. Drawing on original research and interviews, Monk traces the wide range of influences on Oppenheimer's development--his Jewishness, his social isolation at Harvard, his love of Sanskrit, his radical politics. This definitive portrait finally solves the enigma of the extraordinary, charming, tortured man whose beautiful mind fundamentally reshaped the world"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aOppenheimer, J. Robert,$d1904-1967.
650 0 $aPhysicists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aAtomic bomb$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPhysicists$zUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9780385504072.jpg