{"id":295,"date":"2012-09-17T12:26:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2012-09-17T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:26:25","slug":"summer-reading-oppenheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading &#8211; Oppenheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1856-e1347884312873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-296\" title=\"IMG_1856\" src=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1856-e1347884312873-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1856-e1347884312873-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_1856-e1347884312873-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>This summer, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer\/dp\/0375412026\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347884310&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=american+prometheus\">American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherman<\/a>, a biography on J Robert Oppenheimer. For the most part, I really enjoyed the book. I loved the parts about his physics research and the Manhattan Project, but some of the chapters that delved into his political affiliations got a little tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>I have read a number of other biographies on physicists and I wish there were better biographies on famous engineers. I know that this subject has been <a href=\"http:\/\/engineerblogs.org\/2011\/11\/engineering-celebrities\/\">written about<\/a> many times before, but I really lament the fact that there aren&#8217;t more engineering heroes. I&#8217;d love to know more about some of the &#8220;founding fathers&#8221; of modern electronics and computing. I&#8217;ve read a few books on the history of computing, but if you have any suggestions I&#8217;d love to hear them in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, I read American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherman, a biography on J Robert Oppenheimer. For the most part, I really enjoyed the book. I loved the parts about his physics research and the Manhattan Project, but some of the chapters that delved into his political affiliations got a little tiresome. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer Reading &#8211; Oppenheimer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}