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'
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Pages: 446
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