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
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
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 397
Authors: the late Abraham Pais
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his emin