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American Prometheus

The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer


  • Atlantic (Faber)
  • by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
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 | EN | PB
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Publisher Atlantic (Faber)
ISBN 9781838959708
Author(s) Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Publication date June 2023
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 736
Language(s) English ed.
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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.

American Prometheus

American Prometheus

€19.50