PublishedAtlantic, August 2023 |
ISBN9781838959708 |
FormatSoftcover, 736 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 4.5cm |
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 themost famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird andMartin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundlyinvolved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.