Lawrence and OppenheimerThe fateful story of Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer, the two giants of twentieth-century American physics whose association began in productive harmony, climaxed in world shattering achievement, and ended in rancor that split the nation's scientific community and swayed the entire course of United States atomic policy. |
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