Product Description
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.
Product Details
Title: | American Prometheus Bird Kai and Sherwin Martin J. |
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Author: | Bird Kai |
Publisher: | Prh International |
SKU: | BK0480588 |
EAN: | 9781838959708 |
Number Of Pages: | 736 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Paper Back |
Reading age : | All |