Oppenheimer

Klappentext At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science! physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity. Zusammenfassung At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science! physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity.

Auteur
Charles Thorpe is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

Résumé
At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity.