American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
American Prometheus won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN-13
- 9781838957193
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- J. Robert OppenheimerManhattan ProjectAtomic bomb development
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyWonMajor(2006)
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