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BL
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Record Number
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962804
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b717174
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Main Entry
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Thorpe, Charles,1973-
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Title & Author
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Oppenheimer : : the tragic intellect /\ Charles Thorpe.
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Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2006.
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (xx, 413 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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ISBN
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0226798488
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: 9780226798486
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0226798453
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9780226798455
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-396) and index.
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Contents
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Introduction : charisma, self, and sociological biography -- Struggling for self -- Confronting the world -- King of the hill -- Against time -- Power and vocation -- "I was an idiot" -- The last intellectual?
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Abstract
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At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons and the state.
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Subject
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert,1904-1967.
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert,1904-1967.
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert,1904-1967.
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Atomic bomb-- United States-- History.
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Physicists-- United States, Biography.
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Science and state-- United States.
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Science-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Scientists-- Intellectual life-- 20th century.
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Bombe atomique-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
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Physiciens-- États-Unis, Biographies.
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Politique scientifique et technique-- États-Unis.
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Sciences-- Aspect moral.
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Scientifiques-- Vie intellectuelle-- 20e siècle.
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Atomic bomb.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science Technology.
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Physicists.
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Science and state.
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SCIENCE-- Energy.
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SCIENCE-- Mechanics-- General.
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Science-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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SCIENCE-- Physics-- General.
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Ethische aspecten.
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Kernwapens.
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United States.
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Verenigde Staten.
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Dewey Classification
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530.092B
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LC Classification
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QC16.O62T56 2006eb
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NLM classification
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UB 3255rvk
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