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100 1 $aSchweber, S. S.$q(Silvan S.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80137817
245 10 $aEinstein and Oppenheimer :$bthe meaning of genius /$cSilvan S. Schweber.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2008.
300 $axiv, 412 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [379]-400) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tAlbert Einstein and Nuclear Weapons -- $g2.$tAlbert Einstein and the Founding of Brandeis University -- $g3.$tJ. Robert Oppenheimer: Proteus Unbound -- $g4.$tJ. Robert Oppenheimer and American Pragmatism -- $g5.$tEinstein, Oppenheimer, and the Extension of Physics -- $g6.$tEinstein, Oppenheimer, and the Meaning of Community -- $tSome Concluding Remarks -- $gAppendix.$tThe Russell-Einstein Manifesto.
520 1 $a"Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed - in their worldview, in their work, and in their day - this book provides powerful insights into the lives of two critical figures and into the scientific culture of their times. In Einstein's and Oppenheimer's philosophical and ethical beliefs, their ethnic and cultural identifications, their opinions on the unification of physics, even the position of Buddhist detachment in their lives, the book traces the broader issues that have shaped science and the world." "Einstein is invariably seen as a lone and singular genius, while Oppenheimer is generally viewed in a particular scientific, political, and historical context. Silvan Schweber considers the circumstances behind this perception, in Einstein's coherent and consistent self-image and in Oppenheimer's contrasting lack of certainty and related non-belief in a unitary, ultimate theory. Of greater importance, perhaps, is the role that timing and chance seem to have played in the two scientists' contrasting characters and accomplishments - with Einstein's having the advantage of maturing at a propitious time for theoretical physics, when the Newtonian framework was showing weaknesses." "Bringing to light little-examined aspects of these lives, Schweber expands our understanding of two great figures of twentieth-century physics - but also our sense of what such greatness means, in personal, scientific, and cultural terms"--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aEinstein, Albert,$d1879-1955.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022889
600 10 $aOppenheimer, J. Robert,$d1904-1967.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50005793
650 0 $aPhysicists$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 0 $aPhysicists$xPsychology.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111330
852 00 $bglx$hQC16.E5$iS3285 2008