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Reappraising Oppenheimer : centennial studies and reflections

Cathryn Carson (Editor), David A. Hollinger (Editor)
Print Book, English, 2005
Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif., 2005
Biographies
xii, 413 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780967261737, 0967261732
64385611
Oppenheimer as physicist. From theoretical physics to the bomb: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American school of theoretical physics / David C. Cassidy
J. Robert Oppenheimer's path to black holes / Karl Hufbauer
The Communist question. Was Robert Oppenheimer a "closet Communist"? The debate and the evidence / Gregg Herken
Robert Oppenheimer and the Communist Party / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
The puzzles of interpreting J. Robert Oppenheimer, his politics, and the issues of his possible Communist Party membership / Barton J. Bernstein
The Soviet comparison: new insights. Parallel lives? Oppenheimer and Khariton / David Holloway
The making of the Soviet bomb and the shaping of Cold War science / Alexei Kojevnikov
Postwar politics: The Oppenheimer case in context. "The jig was up": J. Robert Oppenheimer and the international control of atomic energy, 1947-49 / James G. Hershberg
The atomic secret in red hands? American suspicions of theoretical physicists during the early Cold War / David Kaiser
Something resembling justice: John Francis Neylan and the AEC personnel security hearings at Berkeley, 1948-49 / Stephanie Young
Killing the messenger: Robert Oppenheimer and Caltech's Project Vista / W. Patrick McCray
The fortunate fox / Richard Polenberg
Cultural resonances. Oppenheimer's guru / J.L. Heilbron
The scientist in mass society: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the postwar liberal imagination / Charles Thorpe
Oppenheimer and the sense of the tragic / Robert P. Crease
The public Oppenheimer. Scientists, arms, and the state: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the twentieth century / Daniel J. Kevles
Intersections: Oppenheimer and Einstein / S.S. Schweber
Oppenheimer in film: a transcript / Jon Else and Peter Galison
Afterword / David A. Hollinger