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- Birth nameMartín Jay Sherwin
- Martin Sherwin was born on July 2, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Oppenheimer (2023), The Day After Trinity (1980) and The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2009). He was married to Susan Smukler. He died on October 6, 2021 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- SpouseSusan Smukler(? - October 6, 2021) (his death, 1 child)
- He was a nuclear-weapons historian who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for co-writing (with Kai Bird) "American Prometheus," a biography of Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- He taught at Princeton, Tufts, and George Mason University.
- He originally planned to go to medical school, but eventually switched to history. After graduating from Dartmouth, he served in the Navy for four years. He received a PhD from UCLA.
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