Oppenheimer The Tragic Intellect

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, the state, and culture.

ISBN:	9780226798462
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Imprint:	The University of Chicago Press
Published date:	15 Oct 2008
DEWEY:	530.092
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	384
Weight:	618g
Height:	155mm
Width:	230mm
Spine width:	29mm

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