Inside The Centre by Ray Monk
J Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and 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, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.
An extraordinarily rich biography, superbly researched and written with impressive clarity* The Times *
You don't need to know your quantum physics to be gripped by Monk's doorstop study of the momentous life of J Robert Oppenheimer… Monk serves his subject well by sparing us neither the worst nor the best in him. -- Ed Caesar * Sunday Times *
Superlative. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Illuminating. * Nature *
[A] fine biography... Oppenheimer has already been served well by biographers. However, Monk here takes the scholarship to a new level. * BBC History Magazine *
You don't need to know your quantum physics to be gripped by Monk's doorstop study of the momentous life of J Robert Oppenheimer… Monk serves his subject well by sparing us neither the worst nor the best in him. -- Ed Caesar * Sunday Times *
Superlative. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Illuminating. * Nature *
[A] fine biography... Oppenheimer has already been served well by biographers. However, Monk here takes the scholarship to a new level. * BBC History Magazine *
Ray Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius for which he won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Award, and Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224062626 |
| ISBN 10 | 022406262X |
| Title | Inside The Centre |
| Author | Ray Monk |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 832 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year 2013 (UK) |
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