Martin J Sherwin
Historian of nuclear weapons
Martin J. Sherwin was an American historian of nuclear weapons. He shared the Pulitzer Prize for Biography with Kai Bird for American Prometheus.
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American Born 1937 in Brooklyn, United States Died 2021
About Martin J Sherwin
Martin J. Sherwin (1937 to 2021) was an American historian born in Brooklyn, New York. His work centered on the history of nuclear weapons and their spread around the world. He studied at Dartmouth College and earned a doctorate in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at Tufts University as Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History, and founded the Nuclear Age History and Humanities Center there. He became professor emeritus in May 2007. Together with co-author Kai Bird, he won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.