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Tuxedo park

- a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II

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Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee loomis gahtered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century- Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others - at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence he pushed Franklin D. Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. The author has enjoyed unprecented access to Loomis' papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work.

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  • Språk:
  • Norsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780684872889
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Utgitt:
  • 1. januar 2003
  • Utgave:
  • 1
  • Vekt:
  • 345 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 2-4 uker
Forventet levering: 28. november 2024

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Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee loomis gahtered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century- Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others - at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence he pushed Franklin D. Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. The author has enjoyed unprecented access to Loomis' papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work.

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