2023-09-23 19:00:00
Who was Robert Oppenheimer, a complex and tormented personality who participated in the development of quantum mechanics before rallying the great physicists of his time to create the first atomic weapon? Read in the biography The Enigma Robert Oppenheimer.
This article is taken from the monthly magazine Sciences et Avenir – La Recherche n°919, dated September 2023.
Who was Robert Oppenheimer, one of the scientists who most nourished the collective imagination, scientific director of the Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1945?
Robert Oppenheimer, a complex and tormented personality
This biography explores the multiple facets of this complex and tormented personality, both intellectual dandy and brilliant theorist, who participated in the development of quantum mechanics before rallying the great physicists of his time to manufacture the first atomic weapon. He rose, according to the author, “at the rank of an American myth, somewhere between Faust and Prometheus, Frankenstein and Oedipus “.
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The Enigma Robert Oppenheimer, Ivan Kiriow, Larousse, 270 p., €15.95
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