Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II READ MORE Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II This must have been an extremely difficult book to write. Its subject, Alfred Loomis, never gave interviews during his lifetime and destroyed all his papers before his death. Few men of Loomis' prominence and achievement have gone to greater lengths to foil history, writes author Jennet Conant. Had he not done these things, his name would be better known--and this probably wouldn't be the first biography about him. So who was Alfred Loomis? He was too complex to categorize--financier, philanthropist, society figure, physicist, inventor, amateur, dilettante--a contradiction in terms, writes Conant. Loomis established a private laboratory in New York and hired scientists whose work in the 1930s wound up making possible both the radar and the atomic bomb. The...