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Martin Jay Sherwin (July 2, 1937 – October 6, 2021) was an American historian. His scholarship mostly concerned the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation.
12 de oct. de 2021 · Martin J. Sherwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atom bomb, and a scholar who plumbed the history and impact of the nuclear age,...
9 de oct. de 2021 · Martin J. Sherwin, a Cold War and nuclear weapons historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for co-writing “American Prometheus,” an exhaustive biography of Manhattan Project director J. Robert...
Martin J. Sherwin is the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University and author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, which won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, as well as the American History Book Prize. He and his wife live in Boston and Washington, DC.
5 de sept. de 2017 · Martin Sherwin was a historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was a former public policy fellow at the Wilson Center, where he worked on a book about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the nuclear arms race.
29 de dic. de 2021 · Courtesy Alex Sherwin. Martin J. Sherwin—Marty to all who knew him—died on October 6, 2021, of complications from lung cancer. He was 84. Marty is probably best known for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf, 2005), a magisterial and Pulitzer Prize–winning biography co-authored with Kai Bird.
3 de nov. de 2021 · A tribute to the historian and biographer of the nuclear age, who co-wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus with Kai Bird. Learn about his life, work, and legacy in this obituary by his friend and collaborator.
