Christine Heflinger’s Reviews > American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer > Status Update

Insight into how Los Alamos was chosen, set up and administered. Interesting counterpoint to the book I read recently about the process of setting up the uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge, TN- 'The Girls of Atomic City.'

Allegedly tried to poison his tutor at Cambridge with a chemical-soaked apple. Amazingly, this does not appear to have had any lingering negative effect on his career.