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020 _a9781838959708
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_bBIR/AME
100 _aBird,Kai
100 _aSherwin,j
245 _aAmerican Prometheus
_b:the triumph and tragedy of J .Robert Oppenheimer
_cKai Bird and Martin J Sherwin
260 _aLondon
_bAtlantic Books
_c2023
300 _a700
500 _aWINNER 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.
650 _aBiography,Oppenheimer
942 _cBK
999 _c700947
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