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J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life

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Availability:In StockContributor:Abraham Pais, Robert P. Crease (With)Publish date:2007-06-25Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195327120ISBN-10:195327128UPC:9780195327120Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Physics, HistoryBook Topic:NuclearSize:9.14 x 6.34 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCKQW16BCJ
The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics.
Pais introduces us to a precocious youth who sped through Harvard in three years, made signal contributions to quantum mechanics while in his twenties, and was instrumental in the growth of American physics in the decade before the Second World War, almost single-handedly bringing it to a state of prominence. He paints a revealing portrait of Oppenheimer's life in Los Alamos, where in twenty remarkable, feverish months, and under his inspired guidance, the first atomic bomb was designed and built, a success that made Oppenheimer America's most famous scientist. Pais describes Oppenheimer's long tenure as Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, where the two men worked together closely. He shows not only Oppenheimer's brilliance and leadership, but also how his displays of intensity and arrogance won him powerful enemies, ones who would ultimately make him one of the principal victims of the Red Scare of the 1950s.
J. Robert Oppenheimer is Abraham Pais's final work, completed after his death by Robert P. Crease, an acclaimed historian of science in his own right. Told with compassion and deep insight, it is the most comprehensive biography of the great physicist available. Anyone seeking an insider's portrait of this enigmatic man will find it indispensable.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195327120ISBN-10:195327128UPC:9780195327120Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Physics, HistoryBook Topic:NuclearSize:9.14 x 6.34 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCKQW16BCJ
Abraham Pais was Detlev W. Bronk Professor Emeritus at The Rockefeller University in New York City. A leading theoretical physicist, he was also an esteemed science writer, the author of 'Subtle is the Lord...' for which he won the American Book Award, Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World, Niels Bohr's Times, and several other books.

Robert P. Crease is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His most recent book is The Prism and the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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