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Episode 7: The Father of the Atomic Bomb. He gave humans a whole new kind of energy, a hundred million times more efficient than burning. A man called the America's Prometheus was experiencing a lifetime of triumph but then the fall came. He became too famous, his views too inconvenient. Although he remained in a prestigious position at Princeton University until his death, the man who had been on the cover of Time magazine several times became a reclusive professor, spending most of the year in his bungalow on an island in the Caribbean. His life story is recounted by historian Alan Carr of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Episode 7: The Father of the Atomic Bomb. He gave humans a whole new kind of energy, a hundred million times more efficient than burning. A man called the America's Prometheus was experiencing a lifetime of triumph but then the fall came. He became too famous, his views too inconvenient. Although he remained in a prestigious position at Princeton University until his death, the man who had been on the cover of Time magazine several times became a reclusive professor, spending most of the year in his bungalow on an island in the Caribbean. His life story is recounted by historian Alan Carr of Los Alamos National Laboratory.