03112nam 22007934a 450 991095592460332120200520144314.09786611966652978128196665012819666579780226798486022679848810.7208/9780226798486(CKB)1000000000579730(EBL)408397(OCoLC)436148396(SSID)ssj0000215437(PQKBManifestationID)11216857(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215437(PQKBWorkID)10194333(PQKB)10049869(MiAaPQ)EBC408397(DE-B1597)524125(OCoLC)1135597439(DE-B1597)9780226798486(Au-PeEL)EBL408397(CaPaEBR)ebr10265987(CaONFJC)MIL196665(OCoLC)646784268(PPN)199387842(Perlego)1852347(EXLCZ)99100000000057973020060505d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOppenheimer the tragic intellect /Charles Thorpe1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Pressc20061 online resource (446 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226798455 0226798453 Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-396) and index.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?At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making—and unmaking—of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons, the state, and cultuPhysicistsUnited StatesBiographyScientistsIntellectual life20th centuryScienceMoral and ethical aspectsScience and stateUnited StatesAtomic bombUnited StatesHistoryPhysicistsScientistsIntellectual lifeScienceMoral and ethical aspects.Science and stateAtomic bombHistory.530.092BUB 3255rvkThorpe Charles1973-1063217MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955924603321Oppenheimer4354169UNINA