The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

ROYAL, Denise.

$350.00

Item Number: 143502

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969.

First edition of “the first book that attempts to give them a substantial and realistic Oppenheimer biography” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “June 10, 1970 To Bob Walls- Who understands that the only knowledge is to know ourselves; and who, in so knowing how learned ‘to harmonize simplicity and truth.’ Sincerely, Denise Royal.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Jeffers.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb."