Oppenheimer. The Story of the Creator of the Nuclear Bomb

The brilliant physicist Robert Oppenheimer was completely uninterested in politics. As he put it, for the first time in his life he voted only in 1936. Immersed in science, he often astonished friends and colleagues with his quirks. A typical eccentric scientist didn’t expect that politics would enter his life after science. Oppenheimer’s research focused on theoretical astrophysics closely connected with general relativity and the theory of the atomic nucleus, as well as nuclear physics. This brought the talented physicist into the Manhattan Project, which worked on developing nuclear weapons… Read about how the life of “the father of the atomic bomb” unfolded—and how the new weapon changed the scientist’s life—in a new biography of Robert Oppenheimer.