Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of

Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history.

Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth centuryâ€”Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and othersâ€”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 Prizeâ€“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 Loomisâ€™ papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomisâ€™ obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Ill.
ReleaseDate 2003-05-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780684872889

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Ill.
ReleaseDate	2003-05-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780684872889

Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

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