American prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By:

Bird, Kai

Contributor(s):

Sherwin, Martin J

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Atlantic Books 2005Description: xiii, 721pISBN:

9781838959708 (pbk)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

530.092 OPP

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Physics	530.092 BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		004507

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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.

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