Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect - Rilegato

Thorpe, Charles

 
9780226798455: Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
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ISBN 10: 0226798453 ISBN 13: 9780226798455
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2006

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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, the state, and culture.
 
A stylish intellectual biography, Oppenheimer maps out changes in the roles of scientists and intellectuals in twentieth-century America, ultimately revealing transformations in Oppenheimer&;s persona that coincided with changing attitudes toward science in society.
 
&;This is an outstandingly well-researched book, a pleasure to read and distinguished by the high quality of its observations and judgments. It will be of special interest to scholars of modern history, but non-specialist readers will enjoy the clarity that Thorpe brings to common misunderstandings about his subject.&;&;Graham Farmelo, Times Higher Education Supplement
 
&;A fascinating new perspective. . . . Thorpe&;s book provides the best perspective yet for understanding Oppenheimer&;s Los Alamos years, which were critical, after all, not only to his life but, for better or worse, the history of mankind.&;&;Catherine Westfall, Nature

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Informazioni sull?autore

Charles Thorpe is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

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Editore
Univ of Chicago Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226798453
ISBN 13 
9780226798455
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
413
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0226798461 ISBN 13:  9780226798462
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2008
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