Spydus Search Results - Anywhere: american prometheus kai bird (Keywords) https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=BSOPAC%3A%20(AMERICAN%20%2B%20PROMETHEUS%20%2B%20KAI%20%2B%20BIRD)&QRYTEXT=Anywhere%3A%20american%20prometheus%20kai%20bird%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3520680&CF=BIB A portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, which discusses his role in the 20th-century scientific world, as well as his roles as family man and head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. A portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, which discusses his role in the 20th-century scientific world, as well as his roles as family man and head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Bird, Kai<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Atlantic Books, 2023.<br />736 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />45 copies <br /> American Prometheus [electronic resource] : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3633980&CF=BIB ***SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN***WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist 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. ***SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN***WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist 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.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Bird, Kai<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Atlantic Books, 2021<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Hampshire Digital Library - (HANTS) - EBooks - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=906345&CF=BIB A portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, which discusses his role in the 20th-century scientific world, as well as his roles as family man and head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. A portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, which discusses his role in the 20th-century scientific world, as well as his roles as family man and head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Bird, Kai<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Atlantic, 2009.<br />xiii, 721 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Gosport DC - (HANTS) - Adult Non-Fiction - B/OPP - Available - C017203783<br /> American Prometheus [electronic resource] : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3633973&CF=BIB 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. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America’s nuclear secrets. 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. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America’s nuclear secrets.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Bird, Kai<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2006<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Hampshire Digital Library - (HANTS) - EBooks - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br />