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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 .
Oct 9, 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...
Oct 12, 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, died...
Nov 3, 2021 · He was an Assistant Editor at The Nation from 1978-82 and later a columnist. In 2006 he won the Pulitzer Prize with Martin J. Sherwin for their biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and...
Oct 10, 2021 · Sherwin was a leading historian of the nuclear age who wrote books on the U.S. bombing of Japan, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He died of lung cancer in Washington, D.C., after a long career of research and teaching.
Oct 10, 2021 · Sherwin was a leading historian of the nuclear age who wrote books on the U.S. bombing of Japan, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He died of lung cancer in October 2021, leaving behind a proposal for a new book on a B-29 crew in Hiroshima.
Martin J. Sherwin was University Professor of History at George Mason University. His most recent book, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (with Kai Bird) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the English Speaking Union Book Award.
