Martin J. Sherwin collection relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1910-2006

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1937, July 2	Born, New York, N.Y.
1959	B. A., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
1971	Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.
1973-1980	Lecturer and research associate, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
1975	Published A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance. New York: Vantage Press. Reissued in 1987 as A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Race. New York: Vantage Press; and in 2003 as A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its Legacies. Stanford: Stanford University Press
1980-1993	Adjunct professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. Founding director, Nuclear Age History and Humanities Center, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
1995-2007	Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American history, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
2005-2006	Published with Kai Bird American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Vantage Press Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus
2007-2021	Professor emeritus, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., and professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
2020	Published Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis New York: Knopf
2021, October 6	Died, Washington, D.C.

Date	Event
1904, Apr.22	Born, New York, N.Y.
1925	A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1925-1926	Attended University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
1927	Ph.D., University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
1928-1947	Assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., and the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
1940	Married Katherine Puening Harrison
1943-1945	Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.Mex.
1946-1952	Chairman, General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
1946-1954	Member, Committee on Atomic Energy, Research and Development Board, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
1947-1966	Director and professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J.
1954	Security clearance revoked by the Personnel Security Board of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
1963	Received the Enrico Fermi Award
1967, Feb. 18	Died, Princeton, N.J.