AMERICAN PROMETHEUS

AMERICAN PROMETHEUS

THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

BIRD, KAI

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ATLANTIC BOOKS
Año de edición:
2023
Materia
Biography/auto
ISBN:
978-1-83895-970-8
Encuadernación:
paperback
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***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.

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