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Author Thorpe, Charles, 1973-

Title Oppenheimer : the tragic intellect / Charles Thorpe.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 413 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-396) and index.
Contents Introduction : charisma, self, and sociological biography -- Struggling for self -- Confronting the world -- King of the hill -- Against time -- Power and vocation -- "I was an idiot" -- The last intellectual?
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Summary 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 scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons and the state.
Subject Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Scientists -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Science and state -- United States.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
SCIENCE -- Energy.
Kernwapens.
Ethische aspecten.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Thorpe, Charles, 1973- Oppenheimer. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 0226798453 9780226798455 (DLC) 2006015223 (OCoLC)68712113
ISBN 9780226798486 (electronic bk.)
0226798488 (electronic bk.)
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