Open LibraryOppenheimer : the tragic intellect
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- 2006
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- Verenigde Staten,Kernwapens,Ethische aspecten,United States,Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967,Physicists -- United States -- Biography,Science -- Moral and ethical aspects,Scientists -- Intellectual life -- 20th century,Atomic bomb -- United States -- History,Science and state -- United States,Scientifiques -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle,Physiciens -- États-Unis -- Biographies,Politique scientifique et technique -- États-Unis,Sciences -- Aspect moral,SCIENCE -- Physics -- General,Bombe atomique -- États-Unis -- Histoire,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology,SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General,Atomic bomb,SCIENCE -- Energy,Science and state,Physicists
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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1 online resource (xx, 413 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :
At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons and the state
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-396) and index
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?
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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 power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons and the state
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-396) and index
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?
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