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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

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#60 of 3,809 books · #31 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2006) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2005).

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.

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Publisher
Atlantic Books
ISBN-13
9781838957193
Topics
J. Robert OppenheimerManhattan ProjectAtomic bomb development

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