Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb | Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

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Author: Rebecca Larsen
First Published: 1988
Time of Work: 1904–1967
Setting: New York City; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cambridge, England; Göttingen, Germany; Berkeley and Pasadena, California; Los Alamos, New Mexico; Princeton, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C.
Principal Characters: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Haakon Chevalier, Leslie Groves, Frank Oppenheimer, Edward Teller
Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: Family or family life, Europe or Europeans, Education or educators, Science or scientists, Bombs, Colleges or universities, Higher education, Atomic bomb, Biography, Physics or physicists
Locales: United States, Washington, D.C., Berkeley, CA, Cambridge, England, Göttingen, Germany, Pasadena, CA, Princeton, NJ, Los Alamos, NM

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Following a brief introduction summarizing the central theme of the atomic bomb in J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life, Rebecca Larsen has organized Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb in nineteen chapters of less than a dozen pages each. Each chapter focuses on a particular episode or theme and carries a quotation from the text as its title.

Larsen’s biography draws heavily on already published accounts by other authors, as well as on Oppenheimer’s own published writings and his posthumously published correspondence. She has also consulted archival...

Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb | Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

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Form and Content

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