Book ID: CBB000741803

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect (2006)

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Thorpe, Charles Robert (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xx + 413 pp.; bibl.; index; ill.
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Schweber, Silvan Sam
Monk, Ray
Banco, Lindsey Michael
Bernstein, Jeremy
Bird, Kai
Cassidy, David C.
Journals
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Social Studies of Science
Publishers
Harvard University Press
World Scientific
Yale University
Alfred A. Knopf
Doubleday
Ivan R. Dee
Concepts
Biographies
Science and politics
Physics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Manhattan Project
Science and ethics
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Einstein, Albert
Urey, Harold Clayton
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Italy
England
Milan (Italy)
Institutions
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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