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HTML:THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER ? "A riveting account of one of history??s most essential and paradoxical figures.???Christopher Nolan, Director NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ? The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer??s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative. ??A masterful account of Oppenheimer??s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America??s own transformation. It is a tour de force.? ??Los Angeles Times Book Review ??A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer??s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory… (altro)
Volume premiato con il Pulitzer 2006 per la biografia, narra la vita dello scienziato che ha coordinato il Progetto manhattan, riuscendo in tempi brevissimi a realizzare la prima bomba atomica. Il trionfo dello scienziato segnò però l'inizio di una tragedia personale, poco conosciuta, a cui fa da sfondo la storia del Novecento americano.
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Modern Prometheans have raided Mount Olympus again and have brought back for man the very thunderbolts of Zeus. -- Scientific Monthly September 1945
Prometheus stole fire and gave it to men. But when Zeus learned of it, he ordered Hephaestus to mail his body to Mount Caucasus. On it Prometheus was nailed and kept bound for many years. Every day an eagle swooped on him and devoured the lobes of his liver, which grew by night.
-- Apollodorus, The Library, book 1:7, second century B.C.
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for Susan Goldmark and Susan Sherwin and in memory of Angus Cameron and Jean Mayer
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Robert Oppenheimer's life -- his career, his reputation, even his sense of self-worth -- suddenly spun out of control four days before Christmas in 1953.
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The cottage on Hawksnest Bay is now gone, swept away by a hurricane, but in its place is a community house standing on what is now called Oppenheimer Beach.
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HTML:THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER ? "A riveting account of one of history??s most essential and paradoxical figures.???Christopher Nolan, Director NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ? The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer??s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative. ??A masterful account of Oppenheimer??s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America??s own transformation. It is a tour de force.? ??Los Angeles Times Book Review ??A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer??s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory
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