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

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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 probably the most visionary scientific minds of the 20 th century—Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others—at his cutting-edge laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, within the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and individually 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 Prize–winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the advance of the atomic bomb.

Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the crucial leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented get admission to to Loomis’ papers, in addition to to people intimately interested by his life and work. She pierces through Loomis’ obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.

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