Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II - Jennet Conant

Tuxedo Park

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

By: Jennet Conant

Paperback | 6 May 2003 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $35.00

$33.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $8.44 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 10 business days

The Untold Story of the American Entrepreneur Who Helped Build the Atomic Bomb and Defeat the Nazis.

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.

Industry Reviews
Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post Remarkable...the story of a genuinely extraordinary man [told] uncommonly well.

Other Editions and Formats

ePUB

Published: 15th October 2013

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

More in History

Looking from the North : Australian history from the top down - Henry Reynolds
The Town Like No Other : A Story of Broken Hill - Robert McLean

RRP $32.99

$28.75

13%
OFF
The Shortest History of Innovation - Andrew Leigh
A Short History of Ancient Rome - Pascal Hughes

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
The Zorg : A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery - Siddharth Kara
The Eagle and the Hart : The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV - Helen Castor
Where It All Went Wrong : The case against John Howard - Amy Remeikis
Japanese Haiku for Cat Lovers - William Scott Wilson

RRP $29.99

$26.75

11%
OFF
All or Nothing : How Trump Recaptured America - Michael Wolff

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

RRP $22.99

$20.75

10%
OFF
Keeper of Lost Children - Sadeqa Johnson

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
The Path of Light : Walking to Auschwitz - Anthony Seldon

RRP $45.00

$35.75

21%
OFF
The House of Blue Glass - Alan Atkinson

RRP $39.99

$33.75

16%
OFF
Roman Infantry Helmets : Elite - M.C. Bishop

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
The Book of Secrets : A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China - Xinran Xue
On the Shortness of Life : The Stoic Classic - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

RRP $24.95

$21.75

13%
OFF