The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of
Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating
portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert
Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of
modern physics. Pais introduces us to a precocious youth who sped
through Harvard in three years, made signal contributions to
quantum mechanics while in his twenties, and was instrumental in
the growth of American physics in the decade before the Second
World War, almost single-handedly bringing it to a state of
prominence. He paints a revealing portrait of Oppenheimer's life in
Los Alamos, where in twenty remarkable, feverish months, and under
his inspired guidance, the first atomic bomb was designed and
built, a success that made Oppenheimer America's most famous
scientist. Pais describes Oppenheimer's long tenure as Director of
the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, where the two men
worked together closely. He shows not only Oppenheimer's brilliance
and leadership, but also how his displays of intensity and
arrogance won him powerful enemies, ones who would ultimately make
him one of the principal victims of the Red Scare of the 1950s. J.
Robert Oppenheimer is Abraham Pais's final work, completed after
his death by Robert P. Crease, an acclaimed historian of science in
his own right. Told with compassion and deep insight, it is the
most comprehensive biography of the great physicist available.
Anyone seeking an insider's portrait of this enigmatic man will
find it indispensable.
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