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

By:

Bird, Kai

Contributor(s):

Sherwin, Martin j

Publication details: London: Atlantic Books, 2005. Description: 721pISBN:

9781838959708

Subject(s):

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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	Books	Main Library (First Floor, Rack No.19)				530.092 BIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available	Recommended by Devang N Amin (PGPLSM/04/012)		37998

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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