J Robert Oppenheimer A Life with supplemental material 1st Edition by Abraham Pais, Robert P Crease ISBN 1435614143 9781435614147

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ISBN 10: 1435614143

ISBN 13: 9781435614147 

Author: Abraham Pais, Robert P. Crease

An illuminating portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer chronicles the story of one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics, from his precocious youth to his seminal role in developing the first atomic bomb, and beyond.

Table of contents:

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: First Encounters
Chapter 2: Background: Early Years
Chapter 3: University Studies
Chapter 4: Postdoctoral Studies
Chapter 5: The California Professor as Teacher
Chapter 6: The California Professor as Researcher
Chapter 7: Oppenheimer’s Opinion of His Own Teaching and Research in California
Chapter 8: Personal Life in the 1930’s
Chapter 9: “The Shatterer of Worlds”
Chapter 10: In Which Oppenheimer Enters the World Stage
Chapter 11: An Atomic Scientist’s Credo
Chapter 12: The Institute Prior to Oppenheimer’s Arrival
Chapter 13: In Which Oppenheimer Is Elected Director of the Institute and Chairman of the General Advisory Committee
Chapter 14: Oppenheimer’s Early Years as Institute Director
Chapter 15: Oppenheimer and the World of Physics: 1946–1954
Chapter 16: Further on Oppenheimer the Man
Chapter 17: Atomic Politics in the Early Postwar Years
Chapter 18: Of the First Serious Enemies and of the First Russian A-Bomb
Chapter 19: Of the Superbomb and of Spy Stories
Chapter 20: The New Super
Chapter 21: Atomic Politics in the Early 1950’s
Chapter 22: In Which the Excrement Hits the Ventilator
Chapter 23: In Which the News of the Hearings Is Made Public
Chapter 24: “Open Book”: The Hearing in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Chapter 25: No Final Judgment
Chapter 26: Insider in Exile
Chapter 27: Cloaked Mountain Peak

Supplemental Material
Notes
Principal Sources Used
Index

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