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Tuxedo park

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

Tuxedo park: a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II

By Jennet Conant

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About the book

Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee loomis gahtered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th 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 ...Show more

Biography: historical, political and military

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ISBN

9780684872889

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Tuxedo park

Format

Paperback

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