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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Monk, Ray.     Subjects     Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.     Physicists -- United States -- Biography.     Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Physicists -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Monk, Ray.       by title:      Robert Oppenheimer [...         MARC Display

Robert Oppenheimer [electronic resource] : a life inside the center / Ray Monk. by Monk, Ray. New York : Doubleday, 2013. Subjects Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.   Physicists -- United States -- Biography.   Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Physicists -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D0471D99-804D-4ECC-9A5C-1445244B3B4E This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/1028636-RobertOppenheimer.wma Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{D0471D99-804D-4ECC-9A5C-1445244B3B4E}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780385362672 (electronic audio bk.) 0385362676 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file) Requests:  0 Summary:  "Revered biographer Ray Monk solves the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and brilliantly illuminates his contribution to the revolution in twentieth-century physics. In Robert Oppenheimer, Ray Monk delves into the rich and complex intellectual life of America's most fascinating and elusive scientist, the father of the atomic bomb. As a young professor at Berkeley, the wealthy, cultured Oppenheimer finally came into his own as a physicist and also began a period of support for Communist activities. At the high point of his life, he was chosen to lead the Manhattan Project and develop the deadliest weapon on earth: the atomic bomb. Upon its creation, Oppenheimer feared he had brought mankind to the precipice of self-annihilation and refused to help create the far more powerful hydrogen bomb, bringing the wrath of McCarthyite suspicion upon him. In the course of famously dramatic public hearings, he was stripped of his security clearance. Drawing on original research and interviews, Monk traces the wide range of influences on Oppenheimer's development--his Jewishness, his social isolation at Harvard, his love of Sanskrit, his radical politics. This definitive portrait finally solves the enigma of the extraordinary, charming, tortured man whose beautiful mind fundamentally reshaped the world"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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