Bird,Kai Sherwin,j

American Prometheus :the triumph and tragedy of J .Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin - London Atlantic Books 2023 - 700

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times

Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics,J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.

9781838959708


Biography,Oppenheimer

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