American Prometheus
£14.99
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Bird, Kai | Unclassified
Published 15/06/2023 by ATLANTIC BOOKS in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 736 pages, 2 x 16pp b/w plates
Description
***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER 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.
