Sherwin, Martin J.

Biographical Note

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)