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Martin J. Sherwin


Born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
July 02, 1937

Died
October 06, 2021

Genre
Cold War Politics, U.s. Diplomacy and Culture, Nuclear History


Martin J. Sherwin was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian whose scholarship focused on the history of the development of atomic energy and nuclear proliferation.

Sherwin received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the long-time Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American history at Tufts University until his assumption of emeritus status in May 2007. He was also a University Professor at George Mason University.

He received numerous awards and grants besides those listed here.

He and co-author Kai Bird shared the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2006, for their book entitled American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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