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The Untold Story of the American Entrepreneur Who Helped Build the Atomic Bomb and Defeat the Nazis.
Simon & Schuster
May 2003
On Sale: May 6, 2003
Featuring: Alfred Lee Loomis; Albert Einstein
352 pages
ISBN: 0684872889
EAN: 9780684872889
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Non-Fiction Biography
Legendary
financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee
Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the
twentieth 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, the
Nobel Prize-winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano
Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to
the development of the atomic bomb. Jennet Conant, the
granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading
scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented
access to Loomis' papers, as well as to people intimately
involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomis'
obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the
Allied victory.
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