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Inside the centre : the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Ray Monk.
Publication details: London : Jonathan Cape, 2012.Description: xiv, 818 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780224062626 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robert J. Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.
