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American Prometheus

American Prometheus

The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/07/2023

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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...

ISBN:
9781838959708
9781838959708
Category:
Biography: science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-07-2023
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
736
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x45mm
Weight:
0.63kg
Kai Bird

Kai Bird is a contributing editor at The Nation and the author of several biographies, including The Chairman, The Color of Truth, The Good Spy and The Outlier.

He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Writing Fellowship

Martin J. Sherwin

Martin J. Sherwin is the author of A World Destroyed- Hiroshima and Its Legacies, which won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, as well as the American History Book Prize, and the co-author, with Kai Bird, of American Prometheus-The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2006. He and his wife live in Washington, D.C., and in Aspen, CO.

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