Oppenheimer : the tragic intellect /

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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 power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key positio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thorpe, Charles, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Temas:
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, > 1904-1967.
1900-1999
Physicists > United States > Biography.
Scientists > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science and state > United States.
Atomic bomb > United States > History.
Physiciens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Scientifiques > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Sciences > Aspect moral.
Politique scientifique et technique > États-Unis.
Bombe atomique > États-Unis > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > Energy.
Atomic bomb.
Physicists.
Science and state.
Kernwapens.
Ethische aspecten.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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