American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai2023
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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.
Main title:
American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
Author:
Bird, Kai, authorSherwin, Martin J., author
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2023.©2005
Collation:
xiii, 721 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Notes:
"The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer"--Front cover.First published in the United States of America in 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2006
ISBN:
9781838959708 (pbk)9781838959708 (pbk)9781838959708 (pbk)97818389597089781838959708 (pbk)
Dewey class:
530.092530
LC class:
QC16.O62
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
544194
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 530 OPP | Available |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 530 OPP | Available |
| Hampton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 530 OPP | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 530 OPP | Available |