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Oppenheimer : the tragic intellect /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thorpe, Charles, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, > 1904-1967.
Physicists > United States > Biography.
Scientists > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science and state > United States.
Atomic bomb > United States > History.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : charisma, self, and sociological biography
  • Struggling for self
  • Confronting the world
  • King of the hill
  • Against time
  • Power and vocation
  • "I was an idiot"
  • The last intellectual?