Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2003
Summary
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-boa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684872889 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0684872889 |
| Author: | Jennet Richards Conant |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2003 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
Timothy FerrisJennet Conant’sTuxedo Parkilluminates an important but little-known chapter in American science, and does it with a deft, knowing touch that brings it to life.
The Wall Street Journal Understanding just how America wins wars is a pressing task these days, which makes the story of Alfred Loomis especially timely – and instructive….[His] remarkable story is being told now only thanks to Ms. Conant, a journalist who combines a graceful writing style with her own family connections to his secretive life. The Washington Post Book World The story of how radar made its passage from the drawing board into the cockpits of Allied fighter planes is incredibly dramatic, and Jennet Conant tells it uncommonly well. Timothy Ferris Jennet Conant’s Tuxedo Park illuminates an important but little-known chapter in American science, and does it with a deft, knowing touch that brings it to life. Kurt Vonnegut A brilliant account of the all but vanished reputation of an amateur physicist who became a friend and peer of the greatest scientists of his time. Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post Remarkable…the story of a genuinely extraordinary man [told] uncommonly well.
Jennet Richards Conant
Jennet Conant’s profiles have appeared in VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, GQ, NEWSWEEK, and THE NEW YORK TIMES. The granddaughter and grand niece of two of the scientists from the Tuxedo Park community, she lives in New York City and Sag Harbour.
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