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Reappraising Oppenheimer : centennial studies and reflections
- Title
- Reappraising Oppenheimer : centennial studies and reflections / edited by Cathryn Carson and David A. Hollinger.
- Publication
- Berkeley, Calif. : Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
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- Description
- xii, 413 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Berkeley papers in history of science ; 21
- Uniform Title
- Berkeley papers in history of science ; 21.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-396) and index.
- Contents
- Oppenheimer as physicist. From theoretical physics to the bomb: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American school of theoretical physics / David C. Cassidy -- J. Robert Oppenheimer's path to black holes / Karl Hufbauer -- The Communist question. Was Robert Oppenheimer a "closet Communist"? The debate and the evidence / Gregg Herken -- Robert Oppenheimer and the Communist Party / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin -- The puzzles of interpreting J. Robert Oppenheimer, his politics, and the issues of his possible Communist Party membership / Barton J. Bernstein -- The Soviet comparison: new insights. Parallel lives? Oppenheimer and Khariton / David Holloway -- The making of the Soviet bomb and the shaping of Cold War science / Alexei Kojevnikov -- Postwar politics: The Oppenheimer case in context. "The jig was up": J. Robert Oppenheimer and the international control of atomic energy, 1947-49 / James G. Hershberg -- The atomic secret in red hands? American suspicions of theoretical physicists during the early Cold War / David Kaiser -- Something resembling justice: John Francis Neylan and the AEC personnel security hearings at Berkeley, 1948-49 / Stephanie Young -- Killing the messenger: Robert Oppenheimer and Caltech's Project Vista / W. Patrick McCray -- The fortunate fox / Richard Polenberg -- Cultural resonances. Oppenheimer's guru / J.L. Heilbron -- The scientist in mass society: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the postwar liberal imagination / Charles Thorpe -- Oppenheimer and the sense of the tragic / Robert P. Crease -- The public Oppenheimer. Scientists, arms, and the state: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the twentieth century / Daniel J. Kevles -- Intersections: Oppenheimer and Einstein / S.S. Schweber -- Oppenheimer in film: a transcript / Jon Else and Peter Galison -- Afterword / David A. Hollinger.
- ISBN
- 0967261732
- LCCN
- 2005936057
- OCLC
- ocm64385611
- SCSB-5247782
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries