A Rare Recording of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Vol. 1

On December 2, 1963, President Johnson presented the Enrico Fermi Award to Robert Oppenheimer in honor of his Manhattan Project work as director of Los Alamos. To be honest, when I think of Robert Oppenheimer, that is what comes to mind, but it gets very little attention in this book. Is this an ove......more

Solid overview of not just the life of Robert Oppenheimer, but the history of theoretical physics in the 20th Century. The power of big science, big government and big higher ed combined to supercharge the advancement of complex scientific research. The demands of a world war accelerated the investm......more

I thought this was a very good read of Mr. Oppenheimer's life - not just his atomic bomb work. I thought it was well-balanced, especially in terms of the causes that resulted in his loss of his security clearance. I would've preferred a little more depth on the atomic bomb work (he was, after all, t......more