American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781838959708
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 736
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Atlantic Books
- Imprint:
- Atlantic Books
- Weight:
- 627 g