J. Robert Oppenheimer [[electronic resource] ] : a life / / Abraham Pais ; with supplemental material by Robert P. Crease

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777052303321
• Autore: Pais Abraham <1918-2000.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-19-770935-4; 0-19-988320-3; 1-280-65546-1; 0-19-534722-6; 1-4356-1414-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CreaseRobert P
• Disciplina: 530.092
• Soggetti: Atomic bomb - United States - History; Physicists - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 First Encounters; CHAPTER 2 Background: Early Years; CHAPTER 3 University Studies; CHAPTER 4 Postdoctoral Studies; CHAPTER 5 The California Professor as Teacher; CHAPTER 6 The California Professor as Researcher; CHAPTER 7 Oppenheimer's Opinion of His Own Teaching and Research in California; CHAPTER 8 Personal Life in the 1930's; CHAPTER 9 ""The Shatterer of Worlds""; CHAPTER 10 In Which Oppenheimer Enters the World Stage; CHAPTER 11 An Atomic Scientist's Credo; CHAPTER 12 The Institute Prior to Oppenheimer's Arrival; CHAPTER 13 In Which Oppenheimer Is Elected Director of the Institute and Chairman of the General Advisory Committee CHAPTER 14 Oppenheimer's Early Years as Institute Director; CHAPTER 15 Oppenheimer and the World of Physics: 1946-1954; CHAPTER 16 Further on Oppenheimer the Man; CHAPTER 17 Atomic Politics in the Early Postwar Years; CHAPTER 18 Of the First Serious Enemies and of the First Russian A-Bomb; CHAPTER 19 Of the Superbomb and of Spy Stories; CHAPTER 20 The New Super; CHAPTER 21 Atomic Politics in the Early 1950's; CHAPTER 22 In Which the Excrement Hits the Ventilator; CHAPTER 23 In Which the News of the Hearings Is Made Public Supplemental Material; CHAPTER 24 ""Open Book"": The Hearing in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer; CHAPTER 25 No Final Judgment; CHAPTER 26 Insider in Exile; CHAPTER 27 Cloaked Mountain Peak; Notes; Principal Sources Used; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The late Abraham Pais wrote the definitive biography of Albert Einstein, ""Subtle is the Lord,"" which won an American Book Award. As a distinguished physicist and Einstein's colleague, Pais combined a sophisticated understanding of physics with first-hand knowledge of this notoriously private individual, offering rare insights into both. It is his unique double perspective that makes his work so valuable. Now Abraham Pais offers an illuminating portrait of another eminent colleague, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics. Pais introduces