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OPPENHEIMER TO LILIENTHAL — HIS BOOK: THE FLYING TRAPESE: THREE CRISES FOR THE PHYSICIST – INTIMATELY INSCRIBED: “WITH AN OLD, CONSTANT AND GRATEFUL LOVE, ROBERT”.
OPPENHEIMER, ROBERT J. (1904 –1967) American theoretical physicist; director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II; credited as the “father of the atomic bomb” for his role in the Manhattan Project, the research and development project that was responsible for the first nuclear weapons. His book: The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises for the Physicist. 1964, Oxford University Press, London. Red cloth covered boards. Octavo, 65 pages. Very fine condition. Inscribed on half title page: “with an old, constant and grateful love, Robert”.
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