Oppenheimer : the tragic intellect / Charles Thorpe.

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Thorpe, Charles, 1973-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 413 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226798486
0226798488

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Oppenheimer.DDC classification:

530.092 B 22

LOC classification:

QC16.O62 T56 2006eb

Other classification:

UB 3255

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Contents:

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?

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-396) and index.

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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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