Bibliograph

American Prometheus, the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Type

Label

American Prometheus, the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplatesportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American Prometheus

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Sub title

the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Creator