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Inside The Centre

Inside The Centre

by Ray Monk

Oppenheimer, j. robert, 1904-1967Physicists, biographyAtomic bombPhysicistsBiography
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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'.

Themes & subjects

Oppenheimer, j. robert, 1904-1967Physicists, biographyAtomic bombPhysicistsBiographyIntellectual life

Author

Ray Monk

Pages

832

Read time

≈ 21h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Random House

ISBN

9781448162253

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