Robert Oppenheimer A Life Inside the Center

Name: Robert Oppenheimer A Life Inside the Center
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ISBN: 9780385722049

ISBN-10: 0385722044

ISBN-13: 9780385722049

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ray Monk

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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb--a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the "Father of the Atomic Bomb." But with his actions leading up to that great achievement, he also set himself on a dangerous collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch-hunters. In Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center, Ray Monk, author of peerless biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, goes deeper than any previous biographer in the quest to solve the…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/11/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 880
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.22" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.398