Inside the centre : the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Ray Monk.

  • Monk, Ray.
Date:
2012
  • Books

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Robert J. Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.

Publication/Creation

London : Jonathan Cape, 2012.

Physical description

xiv, 818 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Oppenheimer)
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  • 9780224062626
  • 022406262X