LEADER 03413nam 22007454a 450 001 9910782432403321 005 20230112222123.0 010 $a1-281-96665-7 010 $a9786611966652 010 $a0-226-79848-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226798486 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579730 035 $a(EBL)408397 035 $a(OCoLC)436148396 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000215437 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11216857 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215437 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10194333 035 $a(PQKB)10049869 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408397 035 $a(DE-B1597)524125 035 $a(OCoLC)1135597439 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226798486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408397 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265987 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196665 035 $a(OCoLC)646784268 035 $a(PPN)199387842 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579730 100 $a20060505d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOppenheimer$b[electronic resource] $ethe tragic intellect /$fCharles Thorpe 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (446 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-79845-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [371]-396) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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? 330 $aAt 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 cultu 606 $aPhysicists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aScientists$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aScience$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aScience and state$zUnited States 606 $aAtomic bomb$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $aj robert oppenheimer, theoretical physicist, physics, los alamos laboratory, war, atomic bomb, manhattan project, 20th century, nuclear weapons, trinity test, science, scientist, united states of america, american history, historical, biography, biographical, intellectuals, morality, ethics, ethical, government, wartime, politics, political influence, identity, representation, power, vocation. 615 0$aPhysicists 615 0$aScientists$xIntellectual life 615 0$aScience$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aScience and state 615 0$aAtomic bomb$xHistory. 676 $a530.092 676 $aB 686 $aUB 3255$2rvk 700 $aThorpe$b Charles$f1973-$01063217 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782432403321 996 $aOppenheimer$93868293 997 $aUNINA