Name: The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer (en Inglés)
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Author: Banco, Lindsey Michael
ISBN: 9781609384197

portada The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer (en Inglés)

The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Lindsey Michael Banco

Editorial

University of Iowa Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

254

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x2.3 cm

Peso

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9781609384197

Categorías

Biografía: ciencia, tecnología y medicina
Historia de la ciencia
Física nuclear/estructura nuclear

The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer (en Inglés)

Lindsey Michael Banco (Autor) · University of Iowa Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer (en Inglés)"

He called the first atomic bomb "technically sweet," yet as he watched its brilliant light explode over the New Mexico desert in 1945 in advance of the black horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he also thought of the line from the Hindu epic The Bhagavad Gita: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the single most recognizable face of the atomic bomb, and a man whose name has become almost synonymous with Cold War American nuclear science, was and still is a conflicted, controversial figure who has come to represent an equally ambivalent technology. The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer examines how he has been represented over the past seven decades in biographies, histories, fiction, comics, photographs, film, television, documentaries, theater, and museums. Lindsey Michael Banco gathers an unprecedented group of cultural texts and seeks to understand the multiple meanings Oppenheimer has held in American popular culture since 1945. He traces the ways these representations of Oppenheimer have influenced public understanding of the atomic bomb, technology, physics, the figure of the scientist, the role of science in war, and even what it means to pursue knowledge of the world around us. Questioning and unpacking both how and why Oppenheimer is depicted as he is across time and genre, this book is broad in scope, profound in detail, and offers unique insights into the rise of nuclear culture and how we think about the relationship between history, imagination, science, and nuclear weapons today.