Martin J. Sherwin

Martin Jay Sherwin (born July 2, 1937 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American historian .

Life

Martin Jay Sherwin attended James Madison High School and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1959 . He then served with the Naval Aire Force for four years before earning a PhD in History from UCLA in 1971 . For his dissertation A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance , with which he traced the decision to drop the atomic bomb, he was awarded an American History Book Prize. The book was published in Japanese and reissued in 1987 and 2011 respectively.

Sherwin taught intermittently at Berkeley , Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania before becoming Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University in 1982 . After his retirement in Tufts, he became a professor at George Mason University in 2007 . A year earlier he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best biography of the physicist Robert Oppenheimer . Together with Kai Bird , he published American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer in 2005, which was published in German in 2009 under the title J. Robert Oppenheimer: Die Biographie by Propylänen Verlag . Other awards included the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize . He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

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• A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance , New York 1975, ISBN 0-394-72148-9
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005)
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer: The biography , translated by Klaus Binder and Bernd Leineweber, Propylaen Verlag , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-549-07358-2

Web links

• Martin J. Sherwin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Martin J. Sherwin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin J. Sherwin Collection Relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer (PDF; 71 kB), loc.gov , page 4.
• Martin J. Sherwin on tufts.edu