# American Prometheus

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- Book: [American Prometheus](https://www.bookquiver.com/kai-bird/american-prometheus) ([American Prometheus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kai-bird/american-prometheus.md))
- Authors: [Kai Bird](https://www.bookquiver.com/kai-bird), [Martin J. Sherwin](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-j-sherwin)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-3895-970-8
- Published: 2023-06-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

***THE INSPIRATION FOR OPPENHEIMER , WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR *** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 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.