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Author Cassidy, David C., 1945-

Title J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American century / David C. Cassidy.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Pi Press, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY OPPENHEIMER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT C    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B OPPENHEIMER    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([425]-439) and index.
Contents Coming to America -- Ethically cultured -- Ethically schooled -- The damning lie -- Summa Cum Laude -- Getting near the center -- A taste for physics -- Coming of age -- Professor of physics -- Cosmic connections -- Depression and war -- The organic necessity -- Dropping the bomb -- Icon of physics -- State scientist -- Good soldiers -- Insecurity hearings -- Exile.
Subject Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0131479962
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