American Prometheus

Kai Bird

RRP: £30.00

Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS

Publication Date : 01/01/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A magisterial and compelling portrait of the brilliant, ambitious yet flawed physicist who led the team that developed the atomic bomb. 25 years in the making, this is at once biography and history, and is essential to our understanding of our recent past and future choices. It also won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize.

Publisher's description:

Physicist and polymath, 'father of the atom bomb' J Robert Oppenheimer became the most famous scientist of his generation. This work is a portrait of a brilliant, ambitious and flawed man, and of the major events of the twentieth century. It is at once biography and history.

ISBN: 9781843547044