American prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer /
Bird, Kai,
American prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. - London : Atlantic Books, 2023.
"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."--
9781838959708 pbk.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, --1904-1967.
United States Science--Political aspects
Atomic bomb
American prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. - London : Atlantic Books, 2023.
"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."--
9781838959708 pbk.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, --1904-1967.
United States Science--Political aspects
Atomic bomb