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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

 16.95

by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

A monumental biography of a complex and brilliant yet highly flawed man, American Prometheus recounts the life of the director of the Manhattan Project who developed the atomic bomb.

 

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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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Weight 0.35 kg
Dimensions 11 × 1.2 × 18 cm