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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II - The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth centuryAlbert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and othersat 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 Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prizewinning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomis obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.


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️Book Title : Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
⚡Book Author : Jennet Conant
⚡Page : 330 pages
⚡Published May 6th 2003 by Simon Schuster (first published 2002)


Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth centuryAlbert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and othersat 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 Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prizewinning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomis obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.

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