Foreign language books Biography Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin: American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin: American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

PULITZER PRIZE WINNERThe definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war,...
ISBN: 9780375726262
Author: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Page: 722
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2006
Format: Book
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Language: English

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Price: 5 990 Ft

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...and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.

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