Inside the centre
Subtitle: the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Ray Monk
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 818
ISBN-13: 9780224062626
Subjects: Physicists; Biography; Intellectual life; Atomic bomb; History
Other titles: Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Description: 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'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 761-785) and index.