Celebrity fades — a truism that applies to scientists as much as to anyone else. Few are remembered outside their disciplines once the generations pass that knew them as famous. Judging, however, by ...

Ray Monk spent 11 years working on his new biography of J Robert Oppenheimer, entitled Inside the Centre. In this podcast, he shares his understanding of the atomic-bomb pioneer’s life, legacy and ...

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After five years of beavering away in isolation and complete obscurity, it is tremendously exciting to pick up a nationally distributed newspaper or magazine and read a review of one’s own book. This ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb and one of the most brilliant physicists never to have won a Nobel Prize, has inspired legions of biographers and memoirists. And for good ...

pt. 1. 1904-1926. "Amerika, du hast es besser" : Oppenheimer's German Jewish background ; Childhood ; First love : New Mexico ; Harvard ; Cambridge -- pt. 2. 1926 ...