American Prometheus

American Prometheus
Author: Kai Bird
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 667
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1838957197


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***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER*** WINNER 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.


American Prometheus
Language: en
Pages: 667
Authors: Kai Bird
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-25 - Publisher: Atlantic Books

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***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying'
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Peter Goodchild
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: Fromm International

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J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century
Language: en
Pages: 435
Authors: David C. Cassidy
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-31 - Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press

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Born into a wealthy, secular New York Jewish family, a student of the Ethical Culture School in New York, later educated in theoretical physics at Harvard, Camb
The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Lindsey Michael Banco
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-15 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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He called the first atomic bomb “technically sweet,” yet as he watched its brilliant light explode over the New Mexico desert in 1945 in advance of the blac
J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Cold War, and The Atomic West
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Jon Hunner
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-12 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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In 1922, the teenage son of a Jewish immigrant ventured from Manhattan to New Mexico for his health. It was the first of many trips to the Sangre de Cristo Moun