Martin j sherwin biography
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Martin Sherwin
Professional Affiliation
University Professor of History, George Mason University
Expert Bio
Martin J. Sherwin was University Professor of History at George Mason University. His most recent book, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (with Kai Bird) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the English Speaking Union Book Award. It was a Washington Post and Boston Globe Best Seller. Time Magazine selected it as one of the 6 best non-fiction books of 2005 and the New York Times listed it as one of the 50 best non-fiction books of the year. He was writing a book on the Cuban Missile Crisis, "Gambling With Armageddon." He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the gemenskap of American Historians. The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education awarded him its “Professor of the Year, Silver Medal Award.” Professor Sherwin has receive
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Martin J. Sherwin
American historian (1937–2021)
Martin Jay Sherwin (July 2, 1937 – October 6, 2021) was an American historian. His scholarship mostly concerned the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation. He served on the faculty at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Berkeley, and as the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University, where he founded the Nuclear Age History and Humanities Center.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Sherwin was born on July 2, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York, to Mimi (nee Karp) and Harold Sherwin.[2] His mother was a homemaker who also worked administrative jobs while his father was a children's clothing manufacturer.[3] He graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn after which he enrolled in Dartmouth College aiming to pursue medicine. However, he went on to study geology and philosophy, eventual
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Professor Martin Jay Sherwin is University Professor of History at George Mason University. For 27 years, Professor Sherwin served as the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University, and is now emeritus. He has held positions at Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley. He is a historian on U.S. foreign policy in Cold War era with special interest in the history of the nuclear arms race. Professor Sherwin is a Winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize for Biography for "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (co-author Kai Bird). Additionally, he was an American History Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1976 for A World Destroyed (current subtitle:"Hiroshima and Its Legacies"). Lastly, Professor Sherwin is a recipient of NEH awards for documentary film on Igor Kurchatov "Stalin's Bomb Maker). His current project f