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| 010 ## - Número de Control de Biblioteca del Congreso USA |
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| Número de la Bibliografía nacional |
2002021001 |
| 020 ## - ISBN |
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| ISBN |
0684872870 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - Número de Clasificación de la Biblioteca del Congreso de (USA-LC) |
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| No. de Clasificación |
QC16.L647 |
| No. del ítem |
C66 2002 |
| 082 00 - Número de Clasificación Decimal Dewey |
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| No. de Clasificación |
530 CON |
| 100 1# - Entrada Principal - Nombre Personal |
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| Nombre Personal |
Conant, Jennet |
| 245 10 - TÍTULO |
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| Título del material |
Tuxedo Park |
| Resto del Título |
: a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II |
| Mención de responsabilidad |
/ Jennet Conant. |
| 260 ## - Publicación, Distribución, etc. (Pie de Imprenta) |
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| Lugar de Publicación, Distribución, etc. |
New York |
| Nombre de la editorial, distribuidor, etc. |
: Simon & Schuster |
| Fecha de Publicación, Distribución, etc. |
, c2002. |
| 300 ## - Descripción Física |
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| Extensión |
xvi, 330 p., [16] p, of plates |
| Otros detalles físicos |
: ill., map |
| Dimensiones |
; 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - Nota de Bibliografía, etc. |
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| Nota de Bibliografía, etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-309) and index. |
| 520 ## - Resumen, etc. |
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| Nota de resumen, etc. |
"In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring transatlantic mission. The British unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with American nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Powerful, handsome, and enormously wealthy, Loomis had for years led a double life, spending his days brokering huge deals and his weekends working with the world's leading scientists in his deluxe private laboratory that was hidden in a massive stone castle." "In this account of a hitherto unexplored but crucial story of the war, Jennet Conant traces one of the world's most extraordinary careers and scientific enterprises. She describes Loomis' phenomenal rise to become one of the Wall Street legends of the go-go twenties. He rode out the Depression years in high style, and indulged in the hobbies of the fabulously rich." "At the height of his influence on Wall Street, Loomis abruptly retired and devoted himself purely to science. He turned his Tuxedo Park laboratory into the meeting place for the most visionary minds of the twentieth century: Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, James Franck, Niels Bohr, and Enrico Fermi. With England threatened by invasion, he joined Vannevar Bush, Karl Compton, and the author's grandfather, Harvard president James B. Conant, in mobilizing civilian scientists to defeat Nazi Germany, and personally bankrolled pioneering research into the radar detection systems that ultimately changed the course of World War II." "Together with his friend Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning atom smasher, Loomis established a top-secret wartime laboratory at MIT and recruited the most famous names in physics. Through his close ties to his cousin Henry Stimson, who was secretary of war, Loomis was able to push FDR to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create the advanced radar systems that defeated the German Air Force and deadly U-boats, and then to build the first atomic bomb. One of the greatest scientific generals of World War II, Loomis' legacy exists not only in the development of radar but also in his critical role in speeding the day of victory." |
| 600 10 - Entradas Secundarias - Nombre personal |
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| Nombre Personal |
Loomis, Alfred L. (Alfred Lee), 1887-1975 |
| 650 #4 - Entradas Secundarias - Términos temáticos |
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| Tópico o nombre Geográfico |
Physicists |
| Subdivisión Geográfica |
-United States |
| Subdivisión de forma |
--Biography |
| 650 #4 - Entradas Secundarias - Términos temáticos |
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| Tópico o nombre Geográfico |
Atomic bomb |
| Subdivisión Geográfica |
-United States |
| Subdivisión general |
-History |
| 650 ## - Entradas Secundarias - Términos temáticos |
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| Tópico o nombre Geográfico |
Research |
| Subdivisión Geográfica |
-New York (State) |
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-Tuxedo Park |
| Subdivisión general |
-History |
| Subdivisión cronológica |
-20th century |
| 942 ## - TIPO DE MATERIAL |
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| Tipo de Material |
Libro - Monografía |
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