_The Swift Years: The Robert Oppenheimer Story_, Peter Michelmore, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1969, 273 pp., $6.95. Oppenheimer’s complex personality is delineated in this well-written biography. In the bibliography is a list of books that Oppenheimer felt “had done the most to shape his vocational attitude and philosophy of life”. _The World of the Atom_, 2 volumes, Henry A. Boorse and Lloyd Motz (Eds.), Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1966, 1873 pp., $35.00. Contains the actual text of landmark documents in the history of atomic physics, each preceded by commentary that places it in the context of the discoverer’s personal life and in the conditions prevailing in science and in society in his time. Photo Credits Page facing inside The “Horsehead” Nebula in Orion. Hale cover Observatories. Author’s Photo Jay K. Klein Contents page Lick Observatory 116 Samuel A. Goudsmit 118 From _Atoms in the Family: My Life With Enrico Fermi_, Laura Fermi, 1954. Copyright © by the University of Chicago Press. 120 Top row, left, Institut fur Radium-forschung und Kemphysik, right, Lotte Meitner-Graff, middle row, left, Nobel Institute, right, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; bottom row, right, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, left, P. H. Abelson. 123 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 130 Top, Ike Verne; bottom, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 132 & 133 Letter and Roosevelt picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; Johan Hagemeyer. 136 & 137 Argonne National Laboratory 141 U. S. Navy 143 Right, Westinghouse Electric Corporation 145 Argonne National Laboratory 152 Lick Observatory 155 Gulf Energy and Environmental Systems 156 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 158 Nobel Institute 159 Left, C. D. Anderson; right, Nobel Institute. 161 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ★ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1972 - 747-189/2 The U. S. Atomic Energy Commission publishes this series of information booklets for the general public. These booklets explain the many uses of nuclear energy. The booklets are listed below by subject category. General Interest