Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II by Jennet Conant, Simon & Schuster, $26, ISBN 0684872870
NUCLEAR weapons ended the Second World War, but it was radar that won it. Everyone has heard of the Manhattan Project, but few are familiar with the great story of how MIT developed radar technology. One of the prime movers-and-shakers behind the Radar Lab was Alfred Loomis. An autocratic Wall Street tycoon, who shunned publicity, he became an influential physicist. While he was coining it on the stock market (making $50 million…
