Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius

摘要

While this volume is largely comprised of revised versions of previously published material, it is hardly a heterogeneous assortment of occasional papers. Taken together, the chapters of Einstein and Oppenheimer form a comparative psychological and social study of two leading physicists after they reached the pinnacle of their careers. Silvan Schweber examines how Albert Einstein's and Robert Oppenheimer's personae as preeminent scientists played out in their immediate social and broader political environments. The book's focus is not so much the meaning of genius, but its uses.