Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

by Charles Thorpe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226798453
• ISBN13: 9780226798455
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.1"