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'
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors: Richard Polenberg
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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At the end of World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of America's preeminent physicists. For his work as director of the Manhattan Project, he was awarded
Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Charles Thorpe
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural powe
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Peter Goodchild
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: Fromm International

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Robert Oppenheimer
Language: en
Pages: 882
Authors: Ray Monk
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-11 - Publisher: Anchor

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An unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America’s most brilliant—and most divisive—scientists, Ro