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Inside The Centre

书名：Inside The CentreTheLifeofJ.RobertOppenheimer
作者：RayMonk
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ISBN：9780224062626
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出版时间：2013
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：832
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书籍简介：

J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious & important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb – a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, & made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'. But his was not a simple story of assimilation, scientific success & world fame. A complicated & fragile personality, the implications of the discoveries at Los Alamos were to weigh heavily upon him. Having formed suspicious connections in the 1930s, in the wake of the Allied victory in World War Two, Oppenheimer’s attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race would lead many to question his loyalties – & set him on a collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy & his witch hunters. Oppenheimer’s talent & drive secured him a place in the pantheon of great physicists & carried him to the laboratories where the secrets of the universe revealed themselves. But they also led him to contribute to the development of the deadliest weapon on earth, a discovery he soon came to fear. His attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race—coupled with political leanings at odds with post-war America—led many to question his loyalties, & brought down upon him the full force of McCarthyite anti-communism. Digging deeply into Oppenheimer’s past to solve the enigma of his motivations & his complex personality, Ray Monk uncovers the extraordinary, charming, tortured man—& the remarkable mind—who fundamentally reshaped the world.

作者简介：

Ray Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, for which he was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize & the Duff Cooper Prize. He is also the author of Robert Oppenheimer & a two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton.

书友短评：

@ 红河谷的莲儿 Ray Monk信得过的。这本书如果不写奥本海默反而更精彩，登场的每一个物理学家都是旷世大神，群星璀璨啊，我最爱的费米篇幅也很慷慨。 @ 红河谷的莲儿 Ray Monk信得过的。这本书如果不写奥本海默反而更精彩，登场的每一个物理学家都是旷世大神，群星璀璨啊，我最爱的费米篇幅也很慷慨。

书籍目录

  • J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, his friend Isidor Rabi once remarked, was ‘a man who was put together of many bright shining splinters’, who ‘never got to be an integrated personality’. What prevented Oppenheimer from being fully integrated, Rabi thought, was his denial of a centrally important part of himself: his Jewishness.No such thought could have entered Oppenheimer’s mind, no matter who he was looking at. There was no group to whom he could point and say, ‘These are my people’, and not just because of his ambivalence about his Jewish background. It was also because that background itself, regardless of Oppenheimer’s feelings about it, could not have provided him with the sense of belonging and, therefore, the sense of identity that Rabi thought was missing in him. Rabi, despite his lack of …
    —— 引自章节：‘Amerika, du hast es besser’:
  • Unlike Karl Compton, Dirac was not impressed by Oppenheimer’s knowledge of and interest in literature. On the contrary, he rather disapproved of it. Once he remarked to Oppenheimer: ‘I don’t see how you can work on physics and write poetry at the same time. In science, you want to say something nobody knew before, in words everyone can understand. In poetry, you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand.’Talking about the time just after the initial formulation of quantum mechanics, he remarked: ‘It was very easy in those days for any second-rate physicist to do first-rate work.’ What he meant, he explained, was that, once the mathematical techniques of quantum mechanics had been developed: It was then an interesting game people could play…
    —— 引自章节：Göttingen

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