American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird
Category: History & Nostalgia
Publication date: 6/15/23
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN 13: 9780198810506
Total Pages: 736 pages, 2 x 16pp b/w plates
Weight: 614
Dimensions: 130 x 199 x 58
***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist 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.