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03446aam a22006018i 4500 001 C585BF4EAEFF11E292F6119ADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230114020400 008 130219s2013 nyu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2012046045 020 $a 0385504071 : HRD 020 $a 9780385504072 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d NjBwBT $d SILO 050 00 $a QC16.O62 $b M66 2013 082 00 $a 530.092 082 00 $a B $2 23 084 $a BIO006000 084 $a BIO015000 084 $a HIS036060 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Monk, Ray. 245 10 $a Robert Oppenheimer : $b a life inside the center / $c Ray Monk. 250 $a First U.S. edition. 260 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c 2013. 263 $a 1305 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references 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. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 856 42 $3 Cover image $u 9780385504072.jpg 941 $a 16 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724071749.0 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041045.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305032111.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629012430.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722034742.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204063752.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110045719.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217025106.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006071733.0 952 $l MBPE423 $d 20180717034237.0 952 $l HYAX325 $d 20180623024335.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826070922.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202072447.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20150508032853.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20140313010321.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20131015010445.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C585BF4EAEFF11E292F6119ADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search