Sherwin, Martin J

LC control no.	n 86093032
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Sherwin, Martin J. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	1937-06-02 1937-07-02
Death date	2021-10-06
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Field of activity	History
Affiliation	Tufts University George Mason University University of California, Los Angeles
Profession or occupation	Historians
Found in	His A world destroyed, c1987: CIP t.p. (Martin J. Sherwin) info sheet (Dept. of Hist., Tufts Univ., Mass., prof. of hist., dir. of the Nuclear Age Hist. and Hum. Center) LC data base, 11-5-86 (hdg.: Sherwin, Martin J.) Oppie, 2005: CIP t.p. (Martin J. Sherwin) data sheet (b. June 2, 1937) Washington post WWW site, viewed Oct. 19, 2021 (in obituary dated Oct. 8, 2021: Martin J. Sherwin, a Cold War and nuclear weapons historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for co-writing "American Prometheus," an exhaustive biography of Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer that he worked on for a quarter-century, died Oct. 6 at his home in Washington. He was 84. Dr. Sherwin wrote three books, including the arms-race and Cuban missile crisis history "Gambling With Armageddon" (2020), while teaching at universities including Princeton, Tufts and George Mason, where he had been a professor since 2007. Martin Jay Sherwin was born in Brooklyn on July 2, 1937. He received a PhD in 1971 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Sherwin joined the faculty at Tufts in 1980)
Associated language	eng