Book ID: CBB000750857

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century (2004)

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Cassidy, David C. (Author)


Pi Press


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: xviii + 462 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Essay Review Wang, Jessica (2006) Two Lives in Contrast: Blackett, Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Age. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 144-147). unapi

Essay Review Pasachoff, Naomi (2006) The Many Facets of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 251-263). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
West, Nigel
Sopka, Katherine Russell
Sopka, Elisabeth M.
Sherwin, Martin J.
Schweber, Silvan Sam
Pichugin, V. V.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Publishers
World Scientific
Viking
Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik
University of New Mexico Press
University of Massachusetts Press
Steerforth Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Biographies
Manhattan Project
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Physics
Science and war; science and the military
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Teller, Edward
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Rotblat, Joseph
Hull, McAllister H.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Warsaw (Poland)
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
England
Ohio (U.S.)
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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