***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 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.
