Atlantic Books

American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

WINNER OF 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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