Cover art for American Prometheus
Published
Atlantic, August 2023
ISBN
9781838959708
Format
Softcover, 736 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 4.5cm

American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by &

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'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 themost famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird andMartin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundlyinvolved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.

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