American Prometheus
Publisher : Atlantic Books; Tie-In edition (15 Jun. 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 736 pages
ISBN-10 : 183895970X
ISBN-13 : 978-1838959708
Dimensions : 12.9 x 4.5 x 19.8 cm
Description
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.