Author details
Available item(s) by this author (2)
Add the result to your basket Make a suggestion Refine your search
Books
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meti[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84354-705-1 Article on page: 721 p. Descriptors: Class number: 530.092 Tags: Oppenheimer, Robert, 1904-1967 ; Physicists--United States--Biography ; Atomic bomb--United States--History Languages: English 
Books
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant 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 sc[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-375-72626-2 Article on page: XIII, 721 p. Descriptors: Class number: 530.092 Tags: Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 ; Physicists--United States--Biography ; Atomic bomb--United States--History ; Science--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century ; United States--History--20th century Languages: English
