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03020aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 E495163CE88811E3B056FCC0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140531010024 008 140313s2014 nyuaf b 001 0beng 020 $a 0385722044 (trade pbk.) 020 $a 9780385722049 (trade pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)872582724 040 $a JRG $c JRG $d FYQ $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d SILO 100 1 $a Monk, Ray. 245 10 $a Robert Oppenheimer : $b a life inside the center / $c Ray Monk. 250 $a First Anchor Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, $c 2014. 300 $a xvi, 825 pages, [32] pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 505 0 $a pt. 1. 1904-1926. "Amerika, du hast es besser" : Oppenheimer's German Jewish background ; Childhood ; First love : New Mexico ; Harvard ; Cambridge -- pt. 2. 1926-1941. GoÌttingen ; Postdoctoral fellow ; An American school of theoretical physics ; Unstable cores ; Fission -- pt. 3. 1941-1945. In on the secret ; Los Alamos 1 : security ; Los Alamos 2 : implosion ; Los Alamos 3 : heavy with misgiving -- pt. 4. 1945-1967. The insider scientist ; The booming years ; Massive retaliation ; Falsus in uno ; An open book? 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [769]-790) and index. 520 $a "Revered biographer Ray Monk solves the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and brilliantly illuminates his contribution to the revolution in twentieth-century physics. In Robert Oppenheimer, Ray Monk delves into the rich and complex intellectual life of America's most fascinating and elusive scientist, the father of the atomic bomb. As a young professor at Berkeley, the wealthy, cultured Oppenheimer finally came into his own as a physicist and also began a period of support for Communist activities. At the high point of his life, he was chosen to lead the Manhattan Project and develop the deadliest weapon on earth: the atomic bomb. Upon its creation, Oppenheimer feared he had brought mankind to the precipice of self-annihilation and refused to help create the far more powerful hydrogen bomb, bringing the wrath of McCarthyite suspicion upon him. In the course of famously dramatic public hearings, he was stripped of his security clearance. Drawing on original research and interviews, Monk traces the wide range of influences on Oppenheimer's development--his Jewishness, his social isolation at Harvard, his love of Sanskrit, his radical politics. This definitive portrait finally solves the enigma of the extraordinary, charming, tortured man whose beautiful mind fundamentally reshaped the world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Oppenheimer, J. Robert, $d 1904-1967. 650 0 $a Physicists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Atomic bomb $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Physicists $z United States $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20140531010704.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E495163CE88811E3B056FCC0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search