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Robert Oppenheimer, letters and recollections / edited by Alice Kimball Smith, Charles Weiner.
LIBRA QC16.O62 A4 1980
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967--Correspondence.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
- Physicists--Correspondence.
- Physicists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 376 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 1980.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- "Work ... frantic, bad and graded A". Harvard, 1922-1925
- "Making myself for a career": Europe and America, 1925-1929
- "Physics and the excellences of the life it brings": Berkeley and Pasadena, 1929-1941
- "These terrible years of war": Los Alamos, 1942-1945
- "High promise ... yet only a stone's throw from despair": Los Alamos, August to November 1945
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "Scientific papers by Robert Oppenheimer": pages 359-362.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-364) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0674776054 :
- OCLC:
- 5946652
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