Oppenheimer And Son
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Oppenheimer And Son
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Author : Anthony Hocking
language : en
Publisher: Johannesburg ; New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company
Release Date : 1974
Oppenheimer And Son written by Anthony Hocking and has been published by Johannesburg ; New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Business & Economics categories.
On Sir Ernest and Harry Oppenheimer.
The General And The Genius
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Author : James Kunetka
language : en
Publisher: Regnery History
Release Date : 2022-09-20
The General And The Genius written by James Kunetka and has been published by Regnery History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Historian James Kunetka examines the unlikely collaboration between rock-ribbed military engineer and project manager Leslie Richard Groves and unstable-but-brilliant communist sympathizer Robert Oppenheimer to bring the Manhattan Project to fruition, beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb, save the world, and—for better or worse—define the fraught existential condition of our modern age. Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century. Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, who had made his name by building the Pentagon in record time and under budget, was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer—the chain-smoking, martini-quaffing son of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose background was riddled with communist associations—Groves's opposite in nearly every respect. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team in a secret mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human race to unimaginable new terrors. And at the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two extraordinary men—the general and the genius.
Harry Oppenheimer
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Author : Michael Cardo
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2023-03-05
Harry Oppenheimer written by Michael Cardo and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book will surely be the most readable, best informed, most complete account of Harry Oppenheimer's life there is ever likely to be.' – Bill Nasson, historian and author As chairman of Anglo American and De Beers, Harry Oppenheimer held sway over his family's gold and diamond empire for a quarter of a century. He combined a passion for commerce with a streak of creative genius. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Oppenheimer, Michael Cardo has produced a vivid portrait based on unrestricted access to his subject's private papers and interviews with Oppenheimer's relatives and associates. Cardo brings to life the places, people and events that shaped Oppenheimer's career at the intersection of business and politics. From the diamond fields of Kimberley, where his father, Ernest, arrived to seek his fortune in 1902, through his long apprenticeship as heir apparent, to Harry Oppenheimer's emergence on the world stage as a magnate and monarch in his own right – the 'King of Diamonds' and the man with the Midas touch – Cardo tells the story of a dynasty. As a financier, philanthropist and public figure, Oppenheimer straddles the history of 20th-century South Africa. In the 1950s the National Party regarded him as a threat to Afrikanerdom, the sinister embodiment of English 'money power'. Forty years later, Nelson Mandela praised Oppenheimer as a nation-builder, a key figure in South Africa's transition to democracy. Yet nowadays, Oppenheimer is demonised in some quarters as the archetype of 'white monopoly capital' and blamed, in part, for democracy's disappointing dividends. Meticulously researched and superbly written, this authoritative work sheds new light on the multifaceted legacy of a renowned South African industrialist.
American Prometheus
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Author : Kai Bird
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2021-11-25
American Prometheus written by Kai Bird and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
Digging Deep
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Author : Jade Davenport
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2013-12-18
Digging Deep written by Jade Davenport and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Before the advent of the great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and minerals that has ever been discovered in one country. It was the discovery and exploitation of first diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, which transformed South Africa into the supreme industrialised power on the African continent. Here for the first time is the complete history of South Africa's phenomenal mineral revolution spanning a period of more than 150 years, from its earliest commercial beginnings to the present day, incorporating seven of the major commodities that have been exploited. Digging Deep describes the establishment and unparalleled growth of mining, tracing the history of the industry from its humble beginnings where copper was first mined on a commercial basis in Namaqualand in the Cape Colony in the early 1850s, to the discovery and exploitation of the country's other major mineral commodities. This is also the story of how mining gave rise to modern South Africa and how it compelled the country to develop and progress the way in which it did. It also incorporates the stories of the visionary men - Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Sammy Marks and Hans Merensky - who pioneered and shaped the development of the industry on which modern South Africa was built.
J Robert Oppenheimer The Cold War And The Atomic West
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Author : Jon Hunner
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-12
J Robert Oppenheimer The Cold War And The Atomic West written by Jon Hunner and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1922, the teenage son of a Jewish immigrant ventured from Manhattan to New Mexico for his health. It was the first of many trips to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a western retreat where J. Robert Oppenheimer would eventually hold pathbreaking discussions with world-renowned scientists about atomic physics. Oppenheimer came to feel at home in the American West, and while extensive studies have been made of the man, this is the first book to explicitly link him with the region. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West explores how the West influenced Oppenheimer as a scientist and as a person—and the role he played in influencing it. Jon Hunner’s concise account of Oppenheimer’s life and the emergence of an Atomic West distills a vast literature for students and general readers. In this brisk, engaging biography, the author recounts how Oppenheimer helped locate the atomic weapons research lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and helped establish leading physics departments at the University of California–Berkeley and Caltech. By taking part in moving atomic physics west of the Mississippi, Oppenheimer bolstered the establishment of research labs, uranium mines, nuclear reactors, and more, bringing talented people—and billions of dollars in federal contracts—to the region. Interwoven into this atomic tale are insights into the physicist’s troubled growing-up years, his marriage and family life, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Oppenheimer’s eventual downfall. After the first atomic bomb burst over the New Mexican desert in 1945 and as the Cold War developed, the American myth of the Wild West expanded to encompass atomic sheriffs saving the world for democracy—even as powerful opponents began questioning Oppenheimer’s place in that story. Against the backdrop of the physicist’s life twining with the region’s history, Hunner explores the promise and peril of the Atomic Age.
Af Press Clips
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Af Press Clips written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Africa categories.
American Prometheus
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Author : Kai Bird
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2006-04-11
American Prometheus written by Kai Bird and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative. “A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America’s own transformation. It is a tour de force.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer’s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —The New York Times
A Sea Of Love
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Author : Claudia Schnurmann
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-10
A Sea Of Love written by Claudia Schnurmann and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-10 with History categories.
A Sea of Love presents 95 letters exchanged between the famous Berlin born scholar Francis Lieber and his wife Mathilde who in 1839-1845 lived separated by the Atlantic, in Columbia/SC and Hamburg. Their writings reflect general notions and ideas shared by well-educated citizens of an Atlantic Republic of Letters connected by culture, interests, and emotions.
Robert Oppenheimer
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Author : Michel Rival
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Robert Oppenheimer written by Michel Rival and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Nuclear energy categories.
La biographie du grand physicien, père de la bombe atomique, dont la vie se confond avec l'histoire du monde pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle. Refusant le projet de bombe H après l'attaque nucléaire américaine sur le Japon, il fut accusé de trahir son pays, diffamé, discrédité et son destin fut brisé.