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J. Robert Oppenheimer : shatterer of worlds / Peter Goodchild.
LIBRA QC16.O62 G66 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodchild, Peter, 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert.
- Physicists--United States--Biography.
- Physicists.
- United States.
- Atomic bomb.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)
- Physical Description:
- 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1981]
- Summary:
- Interviews and newly released FBI material help to answer questions about the life, personality, and work of the man who headed the Los Alamos atom-bomb project and was later dismissed as a security risk.
- Contents:
- The early years
- The radical professor
- The beginnings of the bomb
- Enter Groves
- The biggest collection of eggheads ever
- A problem of security
- A problem of predetonation
- Alsos and the Germans
- The dark hours
- Prelude to trinity
- I am become death
- Hiroshima
- The man who would be God
- The plague of Thebes
- The net tightens
- Indicted
- Oppenheimer 'On Trial'
- The other witnesses
- The verdict
- The final years
- Perspective
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with the BBC/WGBH television series Oppenheimer, produced by Peter Goodchild and written by Peter Prince.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292) and index.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket.
- Contains:
- Zinman Atomic Energy Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Other Format:
- Online version: Goodchild, Peter, 1939- J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- ISBN:
- 0395305306
- 9780395305300
- OCLC:
- 7283805
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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