American Prometheus
Author | : Kai Bird |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781838957193 |
ISBN-13 | : 1838957197 |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: ***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.