Pulitzer-winning scholar Martin J Sherwin dead at 84
The Hindu
He was best known for American Prometheus published in 2005 and winner of the Pulitzer for biography.
Martin J Sherwin, a leading scholar of atomic weapons who in A World Destroyed challenged support for the U.S. bombing of Japan and spent more than two decades researching the pioneering physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus has died.
Sherwin died Wednesday at his home in Washington, DC, according to his friend Andrew Hartman, a professor of history at Illinois State University. He was 84 and had been battling lung cancer.
Kai Bird, a close friend and the co-author of American Prometheus called him, “probably the preeminent historian of the nuclear age.”
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