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Oppenheimer : the tragic intellect / Charles Thorpe.
LIBRA QC16.O62 T56 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorpe, Charles, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert.
- Physicists--United States--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Scientists.
- Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Scientists--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Science--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Science.
- Science and state--United States.
- Science and state.
- Atomic bomb--United States--History.
- Atomic bomb.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 413 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-396) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0226798453
- 9780226798455
- OCLC:
- 68712113
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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