American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai2023
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Click and Collect for American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerPhysicist 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.
American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
Bird, Kai, authorSherwin, Martin J., author
London : Atlantic Books, 2023.©2005
xiii, 721 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
"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.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2006
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530.092530
QC16.O62
English
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