Description

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In this biographical memoir, written by a former colleague, J. Robert Oppenheimer emerges as a man unsure of his identity and captive to an element of self-destructiveness in his makeup. Bernstein's portrait brings the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man.

About the Author

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Theoretical physicist and a writer on popular science, Jeremy Bernstein is a former staff writer for the New Yorker, contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, New York Review of Books, and Scientific American, among others, and author of numerous books.