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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by Jennet Conant
informative
medium-paced
3.0
Alfred Lee Loomis was born in Manhattan in 1887. He was born into a prominent family, mostly doctors and political influencers. He was a graduate of Yale, where he studied science and math. He loved vehicles and yachts and often raced yachts with the Astors and Vanderbilts. He established a laboratory for his private use near his mansion in Tuxedo Park. Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, James Franck, and Enrico Fermi all met at his lab multiple times, as he was able to afford equipment that was not available in most universities. His work would be recognized enough to have him inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. Loomis would go on to invent LORAN, long range navigation, which assisted the war effort and was in use for decades after. He also contributed to meeting about the Manhattan Project, ground controlled radar, and developed technology for sinking U-Boats.
I wish that I had read this book sooner. I did not know a thing about Alfred Lee Loomis until I read this book. I did not realize how many irons he had in the little fires around World War II. He was an interesting person, and his work certainly contributed a lot to the course and outcome of World War II. This book was really good.
I wish that I had read this book sooner. I did not know a thing about Alfred Lee Loomis until I read this book. I did not realize how many irons he had in the little fires around World War II. He was an interesting person, and his work certainly contributed a lot to the course and outcome of World War II. This book was really good.