Book ID: CBB000520109

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005)

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Bird, Kai (Author)
Sherwin, Martin J. (Author)


Alfred A. Knopf


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: xiii + 721 pp.; ill.; bib.; index
Language: English

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Review Bederson, Benjamin (2006) Review of "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer". Physics in Perspective (p. 226). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Oppenheimer, Frank
Banco, Lindsey Michael
Baracca, Angelo
Cassidy, David C.
Conant, Jennet
Hecht, David K.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
History of Physics Newsletter
Publishers
Harvard University
Enigma
Harvard University Press
Jonathan Cape
Pi Press
Simon & Schuster
Concepts
Manhattan Project
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Biographies
Physics
Science and war; science and the military
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Groves, Leslie R.
Rotblat, Joseph
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Italy
Soviet Union
Germany
England
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Cavendish Laboratory
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
University of California, Berkeley
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