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Pages: 398
Authors: David C. Cassidy
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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
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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
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Pages: 443
Authors: Richard Polenberg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-06 - 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 Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
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Authors: Lindsey Michael Banco
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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
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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This groundbreaking Cold War history reveals the government conspiracy to bring down America’s most famous scientist. On April 12, 1954, the nation was astoni