TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pais, Abraham, 
TI  - J. Robert Oppenheimer: a life
SN  - 978-0195327120
U1  - 530.092 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford university press
KW  - Atomic bomb
KW  - Physicists
N1  - Preface1: First Encounters2: Background: Early Years3: University Studies4: Postdoctural Studies: Harvard-Caltech-Leiden, Zurich5: the California Professor as Teacher6: The California Professor as Researcher: More on QED, Cosmic Rays, Electron-Positron Theory, Nuclear Physics, Shower Theory, Mesons, Astrophysics and Cosmology7: Oppenheimer's Opinion on His own Teaching and Research in California8: Personal Life in the 1930s9: The Shatter of Worlds10: In Which Oppenheimer Enters the World Stage11: An Atomic Scientist's Credo12: The Institute Prior to Oppenheimer's Arrival: the Flexnor Years-The Aydellotte Years13: In Which Oppenheimer is Elected Director of the Institute and Chairman of the General Advisory Committee14: Oppenheimer's Early Years as Institute Director15: Oppenheimer and the World of Physics: 1946-1954 "The Great Charismatic Figure"16: Further on Oppenheimer the Man17: Atomic Politics in the Early Postwar Years18: Of the First Serious Enemies and of the First Russian A-Bomb19: Of the Superbomb and of Spy Stories20: The New Super21: Atomic Politics in the Early 1950s22: In Which the Excrement Hits the Ventilator23: In Which the News of Hearings Is Made PublicRobert Crease: Supplemental Material24: "Open Book": The Hearing in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer25: No Final Judgement26: Insider Exile27: Cloaked Mountain PeakNotesPrincipal Sources Used
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