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The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Ray Monk

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Arrow
01 November 2013

Biography: science, technology & engineering; Mathematics & Sciences; Physics

A story of discovery, secrecy, impossible choices and unimaginable destruction- Robert Oppenheimer, his life and the first atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.

But his was not a simple story of assimilation, scientific success and world fame. A complicated and fragile personality, the implications of the discoveries at Los Alamos were to weigh heavily upon him. Having formed suspicious connections in the 1930s, in the wake of the Allied victory in World War Two, Oppenheimer's attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race would lead many to question his loyalties - and set him on a collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch hunters.

By: Ray Monk
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 619g
ISBN: 9780099433538
ISBN 10: 0099433532
Pages: 832
Publication Date: 01 November 2013
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ray Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius for which he won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Award, and Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton.

Reviews for Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Illuminating Nature You don't need to know your quantum physics to be gripped by Monk's doorstop study of the momentous life of J Robert Oppenheimer. Monk serves his subject well by sparing us neither the worst nor the best in him -- Ed Caesar Sunday Times An extraordinarily rich biography, superbly researched and written with impressive clarity. The Times [A] fine biography... Oppenheimer has already been served well by biographers. However, Monk here takes the scholarship to a new level BBC History Magazine Wonderful... Monk retells this great twentieth-century tragedy magnificently -- Ben Shephard Observer

Short-listed for Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year 2013 (UK)
Short-listed for Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Political Biography of the Year 2013
Shortlisted for Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Political Biography of the Year 2013.