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Tuxedo Park - The Wall Street Tycoon Who Changed the Course of World War II (Paperback, 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed) Loot Price: R494
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Tuxedo Park - The Wall Street Tycoon Who Changed the Course of World War II (Paperback, 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed)

Jennet Conant

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The Untold Story of the American Entrepreneur Who Helped Build the Atomic Bomb and Defeat the Nazis.

Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century -- Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others -- at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.

Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis' papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomis' obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.

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Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2003
First published: May 2003
Authors: Jennet Conant
Dimensions: 215 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 352
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-87288-9
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Weapons & equipment > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > Humanities > History > American history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > History > American history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
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LSN: 0-684-87288-9
Barcode: 9780684872889

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