Robert Oppenheimer

书名：Robert OppenheimerALifeInsidetheCenter
作者：RayMonk
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ISBN：9780385504072
出版社：DoubledayBooks
出版时间：2013-5-14
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：848
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his actions leading up to that great achievement, he also set himself on a dangerous collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch-hunters. In Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center , Ray Monk, author of peerless biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, goes deeper than any previous biographer in the quest to solve the enigma of Oppenheimer’s motivations and his complex personality. The son of German-Jewish immigrants, Oppenheimer was a man of phenomenal intellectual attributes, driven by an ambition to overcome his status as an outsider and penetrate the heart of political and social life. As a young scientist, his talent and drive allowed him to enter a community peopled by the great names of twentieth-century physics—men such as Niels Bohr, Max Born, Paul Dirac, and Albert Einstein—and to play a role in the laboratories and classrooms where the world was being changed forever, where the secrets of the universe, whether within atomic nuclei or collapsing stars, revealed themselves. But Oppenheimer’s path went beyond one of assimilation, scientific success, and world fame. The implications of the discoveries at Los Alamos weighed heavily upon this fragile and complicated man. In the 1930s, in a climate already thick with paranoia and espionage, he made suspicious connections, and in the wake of the Allied victory, his attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race led many to question his loyalties. Through compassionate investigation and with towering scholarship, Ray Monk’s Robert Oppenheimer tells an unforgettable story of discovery, secrecy, impossible choices, and unimaginable destruction.

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@ 老魁 读这本的时候又翻了翻惠勒的自传，更加觉得这两个人才是在某种意义上形成对照的。从黑洞到核武器，奥本海默都曾与惠勒同道而行，但最终两人却背道而驰。这导致奥本海默没有在天体物理上更进一步，以及在麦卡锡主义下备受打击。尤其是惠勒并不像泰勒或施特劳斯那样人品败坏，两个同样正直而只是做出了不同选择的人，却遭受了截然不同的命运，这更加显示出历史的无常。今时今日的人们已经对于惠勒所代表的那种历史——黑洞和核武器——习以为常，但只有当你看到惠勒背后的奥本海默，你才可以发现原来人类看似唯一的那一条道路，曾经走过那么多弯路和歧途，面临过那么多命运时刻的路口。 @ MermerX 读这本的时候又翻了翻惠勒的自传，更加觉得这两个人才是在某种意义上形成对照的。从黑洞到核武器，奥本海默都曾与惠勒同道而行，但最终两人却背道而驰。这导致奥本海默没有在天体物理上更进一步，以及在麦卡锡主义下备受打击。尤其是惠勒并不像泰勒或施特劳斯那样人品败坏，两个同样正直而只是做出了不同选择的人，却遭受了截然不同的命运，这更加显示出历史的无常。今时今日的人们已经对于惠勒所代表的那种历史——黑洞和核武器——习以为常，但只有当你看到惠勒背后的奥本海默，你才可以发现原来人类看似唯一的那一条道路，曾经走过那么多弯路和歧途，面临过那么多命运时刻的路口。 @ 00-27_shin 读过的最好的传记，涵盖Oppenheimer复杂人生的方方面面并且无缝切换。 @ MermerX 说实话，很多时候读起来有种感觉是当事人没有隐私可言，好坏都被我们看到了。中间很多时候都在唏嘘。作为最后的几个polymath，Oppenheimer太有意思了。

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