American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer
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Author:BIRD Kai / SHERWIN Martin
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ISBN:9781838959708
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Publication Date:July 2023
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Pages:736
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Atlantic Books
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Country of Publication:United Kingdom
American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer
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Author:BIRD Kai / SHERWIN Martin
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ISBN:9781838959708
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Publication Date:July 2023
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Pages:736
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Atlantic Books
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Country of Publication:United Kingdom
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.
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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.