Marty Sherwin Biography

Martin J. Sherwin the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University and biographer Kai Bird have been awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography for American Prometheus their book on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer the physicist who led the Manhattan Project which resulted in the development and use of the atomic bomb in August 1945. Earlier this year the work also received the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best biography of the year. This interview was conducted last fall. During the summer between his freshman and sophomore years in college Martin J. Sherwin worked at a uranium mine in Wyoming. Now a professor in the Department of History Sherwin still recalls hearing the click click click of the Geiger counter while on the job. He didn't know it then but much of his life would become focused on the history the politics and the social issues involving the use of atomic energy

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