Foreword by Martin J. Sherwin	xv
	Biographical Chronology	xxi
	Introduction	1
I	"Work frantic, bad and graded A"     HARVARD, 1992-1925	11
II	"Making myself for a career"     EUROPE AND AMERICA, 1925-1929	75
III	"Physics and the excellences of the life it brings"     BERKELEY AND PASADENA, 1929-1941	130
IV	"These terrible years of war"     LOS ALAMOS, 1942-1945	221
V	"High promise ... yet only a stone's throw from despair"     LOS ALAMOS, AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1945	293
	Epilogue	327
	Notes	337
	Sources and Style	353
	Scientific Papers by Robert Oppenheimer	359
	Bibliography	363
	Index	365