Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
by Charles Thorpe
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At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 ́67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making ́and unmaking ́of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe show more illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons, the state, and cultu show lessTags
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Charles Thorpe is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego
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