Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect - Couverture rigide

Thorpe, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226798453 ISBN 13 : 9780226798455

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 culture.A stylish intellectual biography, Oppenheimer maps out changes in the roles of scientists and intellectuals in twentieth-century America, ultimately revealing transformations in Oppenheimer's persona that coincided with changing attitudes toward science in society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Charles Thorpe is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226798453
• ISBN 13: 9780226798455
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 413
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