- Publisher:
- ATLANTIC
- ISBN:
- 978-1-83895-970-8
- Pages:
- 721
AMERICAN PROMETHEUS
THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
KAI BIRD / MARTIN J. SHERWIN
***NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN*** 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.