Tag: J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Nation & World
Closer look at ‘father of atomic bomb’
Historian Steven Shapin unwinds the complexities of J. Robert Oppenheimer as a scientist and a legend
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Nation & World
Reflections on a nuclear mission
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Nobel laureate Roy Glauber reflected on his two years in Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, which developed the world’s first atomic bomb.