Tuxedo Park A Wall Street Tycoon & Secret Palace of Science That Changed WWII
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| Management number | 7115052 | Release Date | 2025/08/20 | List Price | $3.00 | Model Number | 7115052 | ||
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Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by Conant, Jennet
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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 centuryAlbert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and othersat 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 Prizewinning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear f
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