The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography...