A biography of Nobel Prize winning physicist Albert Einstein that explores the scientist's private life as revealed in personal archives kept secret until the last decade.

Examines the development of the first atomic bombs and profiles J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project.

Traces the life and work of the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative - the Manhattan Project. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.

"J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who led the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb and ended World War II, forged the alliance between science and government that made the American Century possible. David C. Cassidy's much anticipated, richly detailed, magisterial biography is not merely the life story of a brilliant physicist, it tells the hidden story of the political and social forces shaping the world in our time : the rise of American...

Examines the life of the physicist who, among other achievements, was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize for physics for developing the hydrogen bubble chamber, a powerful tool for tracking atomic particles.