NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
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.
Biography - Literature and Literary studies, Technology - Engineering - Agriculture - Industrial processes, History and Archaeology, Society and Social Sciences
Paperback
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
736 pages
H: 198mm W: 129mm Spine: 45mm
Weight: 627 grams