736 pages
English language
Published April 5, 2005 by Knopf.
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Twenty-five years in the making, the book was published in 2005 and was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. It also won the 2008 Duff Cooper Prize, Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and Discover Magazine Best Science Book of the Year.
Subjects
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, -- 1904-1967
- Physicists -- United States -- Biography
- Atomic bomb -- United States -- History
- Science -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th cnetury
- United States -- History -- 20th century