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Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIRCassidy, David C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pi Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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Summary: Wall Street legend Alfred Lee Loomis, who once owned Hilton Head Island, was devoted to his hobby of science experiments in his mansion. During World War II, Loomis played a key role in the development of radar and the atomic bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 530 CONGleick, James.
Summary: A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005