Tuxedo Park (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jennet Conant
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Biography and history of science
- Time of Work: 1910-1950
- Setting: Tuxedo Park, New York, and Boston
- Principal Characters: Alfred Lee Loomis, Henry L. Stimson, R. W. Wood, Karl Compton, Ernest Lawrence, George Kistiakowsky, Luis Alvarez, William T. Richards
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Science and technology
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Science or scientists, World War II, New England, War, Boston, Technology, Experiments, Physics or physicists, Massachusetts
- Locales: Boston, MA, New York
During World War II, two major scientific breakthroughs contributed to the Allied victory over Germany and Japan. One was the atomic bomb with its secret laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The other was the development of radar at the so-called “Rad Lab” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The atomic bomb had a very dramatic impact when it was detonated over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, but Lee DuBridge, director of the Rad Lab, liked to claim that “Radar had won the war; the atom bomb ended it.”
Alfred Lee Loomis was a somewhat eccentric,...
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