818 pages
English language
Published 2012 by Jonathan Cape.
Ray Monk: Inside the centre (2012, Jonathan Cape)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-224-06262-6
- OCLC Number:
- 819300105
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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'.
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'.
Subjects
- Physicists
- Biography
- Intellectual life
- Atomic bomb
- History
Places
- United States