Descrizione

First Edition, third printing. 8vo, publisher's original light gray cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original illustrated dustjacket. 384 pp. The book very fine in a handsome dustjacket with minor edgewear.

Edizione: a fine copy. the fateful story of earnest lawrence and robert oppenheimer - the two giants+6 of twentieth-century american physics - whose association began in productive harmony, climaxed in world-shattering achievement, and ended in rancor that split the nation's scientific community and swayed the entire course of united states atomic policy.<br> in lawrence and oppenheimer, davis writes not of abstract science but of the ambitions, tensions, insights and clashing values of proud and brilliant men. a collective portrait of modern man on the brink of cataclysm, this is a book for the nonscientist as well as for readers steeped in the technology of the age.