Tuxedo Park : a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II / Jennet Conant.
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 systms that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosefelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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- ISBN: 0684872870
- ISBN: 9780684872872
- Physical Description: xvi, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2002]
- Copyright: ©2002
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Map of Tuxedo Park x -- 1 Patron 1 -- 2 Bred in the Bone 16 -- 3 Power Broker 37 -- 4 Palace of Science 55 -- 5 Cash on the Barrel 80 -- 6 Restless Energy 108 -- 7 Big Machine 133 -- 8 Echoes of War 154 -- 9 Precious Cargo 179 -- 10 Blitz 209 -- 11 Minister Without Portfolio 238 -- 12 Last of the Great Amateurs 251.
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