Charles Thorpe (Sociology)
cthorpe@ucsd.edu

University of California, San Diego
Department of Sociology, 0533
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
Phone: (858) 534-0953
Fax: (858) 534-4753


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Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Social Theory

Book:
Thorpe, Charles Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. University of Chicago Press. 2006.

Through a sociological biography of atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, this book examines the transformation of the social and political role of American scientists during World War Two and the Cold War.