J. Robert Oppenheimer: a life
Publication details: Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford:Description: xxii, 352p. : ill., pb; 24 cmISBN:- 9780195327120
- 530.092 PAI
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
IIT Gandhinagar General Stacks | General | 530.092 PAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 029785 |
Browsing IIT Gandhinagar shelves, Shelving location: General Stacks, Collection: General Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
||
530.092 HEI Niels Bohr: a very short introduction | 530.092 ISA Einstein: his life and universe | 530.092 JOH Anxiety and the equation: understanding Boltzmann's entropy | 530.092 PAI J. Robert Oppenheimer: a life | 530.092 ROB Einstein on the run: how Britain saved the world's greatest scientist | 530.0922 MLO Stephen Hawking: a memoir of friendship and physics | 530.09540904 HAL Cross-cultural networking in the eastern Indian ocean realm, c. 100-1800 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Abraham Pais offers a portrait of his eminent colleague, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics. Pais introduces us to a precocious youth who sped through Harvard in three years, made signal contributions to quantum mechanics while in his twenties, and was instrumental in the growth of American physics in the decade before the Second World War, almost single-handedly putting American physics on the map. Pais then paints a revealing portrait of Oppenheimer's life in Los Alamos, where in twenty remarkable, feverish months, under his inspired leadership, the first atomic bomb was designed and built, a success that made Oppenheimer America's most famous scientist. Pais, who was his next-door neighbor for many years, describes Oppenheimer's long tenure as Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, but also shows how Oppenheimer's intensity and arrogance won him powerful enemies, who would ultimately make him one of the principal victims of the Red Scare of the 1950s." "J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most comprehensive biography of the great physicist available. It is Abraham Pais's final work, completed after his death by Robert P. Crease, an acclaimed historian of science in his own right
There are no comments on this title.