TY - BOOK AU - Bird,Kai AU - Sherwin,j TI - American Prometheus: :the triumph and tragedy of J .Robert Oppenheimer SN - 9781838959708 U1 - 920 PY - 2023/// CY - London PB - Atlantic Books KW - Biography,Oppenheimer N1 - 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 ER -