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...humanity. While many had qualms, Oppenheimer actually supported the use of the bomb in order to demonstrate to the world that the U.S. possessed such a capability. He feared that keeping the weapon a secret would guarantee its widespread use in future wars. Oppenheimer, influenced by Niels Bohr, idealistically envisioned openly sharing nuclear information with the Soviets to avert an arms race. He feared atomic war and nuclear terrorism. Oppenheimer used the fame that came out of the Manhattan Project to press these issues, but President Truman described him as a “cry-baby scientist” after...
...Unlike more academically minded biographers, Ottaviani and Purvis give us as much personality as they do science. Along with the bigger events of Bohr's life the book includes the kind of trivial but telling moments that add nuance to his personality. In one sequence he pouts because, although he convinces his reluctant wife to buy the baby carriage he wants, he really wanted her to believe in the decision, rather than just acquiesce. Purvis, for his part, does a fine job of bringing Bohr and his contemporaries alive with animated caricatures. Together, Purvis and Ottaviani's portrait of Bohr...
...Niels Bohr is suspended in language...
...move that really puts "Suspended in Language" beyond rote, educational biography is the very literary manner in which Ottaviani has centered the book on a theme of the power of language. The title becomes the key. At first it seems a small joke in reference to Bohr's logorrheaic writings, whose impenetrability became legendary. But gradually Ottaviani builds on Bohr's relationship with language. Near the end, the authors take a bold leap beyond the "fourth wall," using the comic language itself as the embodiment of Bohr's ideas. In a breathtaking moment, Bohr points to the gutter between panels...
...Both educational and entertaining, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis' "Suspended in Language" stands out as a comic that smartly uses its medium as part of its message. Generating as many philosophical questions as physics answers, it embodies the spirit of Bohr's life and ideas: It changes depending on how you look...