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BL
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623725
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Pais, Abraham,1918-
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| Title & Author
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J. Robert Oppenheimer : : a life /\ Abraham Pais ; with supplemental material by Robert P. Crease
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2006
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xxii, 353 p., [16] p. of plates :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780195166736 (acid-free paper)
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: 0195166736 (acid-free paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-336) and index
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| Contents
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First encounters -- Background. Early years -- University studies -- The California professor as teacher -- The California professor as researcher -- Oppenheimer's own opinion on his teaching and research in California -- Personal life in the 1930s -- "The shatterer of worlds" -- In which Oppenheimer enters the world stage -- An atomic scientist's credo -- The Institute prior to Oppenheimer's arrival -- In which Oppenheimer is elected Director of the Institute and Chairman of the GAC -- Oppenheimer's early years as Institute Director -- Oppenheimer and the world of physics, 1946-1954 -- Further on Oppenheimer the man -- Atomic politics in the early postwar years -- Of the first serious enemies and of the first Russian A-bomb -- Of the Superbomb and of spy stories -- The new Super -- Atomic politics in the early 1950s -- In which the excrement hits the ventilator -- In which the news of the hearings is made public -- Open book -- No final judgment -- Insider in exile -- Cloudy mountain peak.
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| Abstract
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An illuminating portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer chronicles the story of one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics, from his precocious youth to his seminal role in developing the first atomic bomb, and beyond.
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| Subject
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert,1904-1967
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| Subject
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Atomic bomb-- United States-- History
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Physicists-- United States-- Biography
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| Dewey Classification
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530/.092B
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| LC Classification
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QC16.O62P35 2006
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| Added Entry
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Crease, Robert P
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