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Oklahoma western biographies volume 24
Physical Desc
xvi, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This biography of Oppenheime explores how the West influenced J. Robert Oppenheimer as a scientist and person and how he influenced it. The author describes how Oppenheimer's life changed the course of history, as he helped locate the atomic weapons research lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico and transformed the area as the atomic West.
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xxx, 304 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
They call themselves Jason. Their group is a child of the Cold War, and they include scientific stars like Freeman Dyson and Murray Gell-Mann. They've inherited a mission from the Manhattan Project -- to counsel the government on the military uses of pure science -- and have gathered every summer since 1960 to solve classified problems for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Aside from a brief media firestorm during the Vietnam...
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