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Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
By Conant, Jennet
- ISBN
- 978-0-74325-007-8
- Publisher
- New York ; Simon & Schuster, c2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2005
Because the popular image of Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67), a.k.a. the father of the atomic bomb, is tainted with controversy, his charisma and administrative genius are often downplayed. This book, while acknowledging his faults, pays tribute to those virtues. Nowhere could his skills as a physicist have been better tested than at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM), where Oppenheimer fashioned a productive coexi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
