- Editorial:
- ATLANTIC BOOKS
- Año de edición:
- 2023
- Materia
- Biography/auto
- ISBN:
- 978-1-83895-970-8
- Encuadernación:
- paperback
AMERICAN PROMETHEUS
THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
BIRD, KAI
***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist 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.