Oliphant
the australian genius who developed radar and showed oppenheimer how to build the bomb
$33.81
- Paperback
- Release Date
29 September 2025
Summary
Oliphant: The Untold Story of the Australian Physicist Who Shaped the Atomic Age
6 August 1945: the United States launches the world’s first nuclear attack on Japan. J. Robert Oppenheimer will be remembered as the father of the bomb, but it was Australian physicist Sir Mark Oliphant and his lab who discovered how it could be done. Faced with Hitler’s determination to build the bomb, Oliphant shares his secret research with Oppenheimer and helps him build it. It is a decision both wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761472190 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761472194 |
| Author: | Roland Perry |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
About The Author
Roland Perry
Roland Perry OAM is one of Australia’s best-known authors. He has written 41 books, many of them bestsellers, including Monash: The outsider who won the war, The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History, and The Australian Light Horse.
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