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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon & the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Tuxedo Park A Wall Street Tycoon the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II Author:Jennet Conant In the fall of 1940, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with American nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. He had a deluxe private laboratory hidden in a massive stone castle. — Thi... more »s volume 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 century: 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.« less
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Alfred Lee Loomis was a brilliant and modest man. He graduated from law school, was a lawyer, then a business man, then a great physicist. Franklin Roosevelt said he could not have won the war without Winston Churchill and Alfred Lee Loomis. Loomis knew what he wanted and went for it. Tuxedo Park, an exclusive neighborhood in New York was his home for many years. The author Jenner Conant was a friend of the Loomis family. This is a great story about a great man.