Sherwin, Martin J.

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Birth 1937-06-02

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Martin J. Sherwin

1937, July 2 Born, New York, N.Y. 1959 B. A., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 1971 Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles, Calif. 1973 1980 Lecturer and research associate, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1975 Published A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance. New York: Vantage Press. Reissued in 1987 as A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Race. New York: Vantage Press; and in 2003 as A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its Legacies. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1980 1993 Adjunct professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. Founding director, Nuclear Age History and Humanities Center, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. 1995 2007 Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American history, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. 2005 2006 Published with Kai Bird American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Vantage Press Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus 2007 Professor emeritus, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., and professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

1904, Apr.22 Born, New York, N.Y. 1925 A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1925 1926 Attended University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England 1927 Ph.D., University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany 1928 1947 Assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., and the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 1940 Married Katherine Puening Harrison 1943 1945 Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.Mex. 1946 1952 Chairman, General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1946 1954 Member, Committee on Atomic Energy, Research and Development Board, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission 1947 1966 Director and professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J. 1954 Security clearance revoked by the Personnel Security Board of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1963 Received the Enrico Fermi Award 1967, Feb. 18 Died, Princeton, N.J.

From the guide to the Martin J. Sherwin Collection Relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1910-2006, (bulk 1931-2006), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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  • Atomic bomb
  • Atomic bomb
  • Communism
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  • Hydrogen bomb
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