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J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: David C. Cassidy
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-31 - Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press

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Born into a wealthy, secular New York Jewish family, a student of the Ethical Culture School in New York, later educated in theoretical physics at Harvard, Camb
Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Charles Thorpe
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural powe
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors: Richard Polenberg
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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At the end of World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of America's preeminent physicists. For his work as director of the Manhattan Project, he was awarded
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
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Authors: Priscilla J. McMillan
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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Draws from previously classified documents, unpublished manuscripts, private correspondence, and other sources to chronicle the events that surrounded the revoc
The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Lindsey Michael Banco
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-15 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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He called the first atomic bomb “technically sweet,” yet as he watched its brilliant light explode over the New Mexico desert in 1945 in advance of the blac