Oppenheimer
Book description
As a former colleague of Oppenheimer's, Jeremy Bernstein has written a biographical profile that is both personal and historical, bringing the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man. Without Oppenheimer's totally remarkable leadership at Los Alamos, the atomic bomb would not have happened, and…
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1 author picked Oppenheimer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As both a physicist and an established writer on scientific subjects, and having been at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton with Oppenheimer for two years, Jeremy Bernstein was perfectly positioned to write this book.
Combining history and personal observation, in the style of the profiles he wrote for New Yorker magazine, this book is imminently readable.
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