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Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant tells the story of wealthy financier and amateur scientist Alfred Lee Loomis who, in the late 1930s, created a secret haven at his Tuxedo Park, NY estate for top physicists (like Einstein, Fermi, Bohr) to collaborate, leading to crucial radar and other defense tech that helped win WWII, bridging Wall Street, "Big Science," and national security through his network and funding. It's a narrative about this "Renaissance Man," his pivotal role in wartime innovation, and the birth of modern scientific R&D
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