American Prometheus

NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

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.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION