TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jennet Conant
TI  - Tuxedo Park
SN  - 9780684872872
AV  - QC16.L647 
U1  - 530.0922747 
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Physical Sciences
KW  - History - U.S
N2  - In the fall of 1940, a small team of Brit. scientists on orders from Winston Churchill unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with Amer. nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. He had a deluxe private lab hidden in a massive stone castle. This vol. describes Loomis' phenomenal rise to become a Wall Street legend of the 1920s. At the height of his influence on Wall Street, Loomis abruptly retired & turned his Tuxedo Park lab into the meeting place for the most visionary minds of the 20th cent.: Einstein, Heisenberg, Franck, Bohr, & Fermi. Loomis was able to push FDR to spend millions of dollars to create the advanced radar systems & then to build the first atomic bomb. Ill
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