Wolverton, Mark. A Life in Twilight: The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer.(Brief article)(Book review)

Wolverton, Mark. A Life in Twilight: The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer. St. Martin's. Nov. 2008. c.320p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-312-37440-2. $25.95. SCI

Science writer Wolverton (The Depths of Space; The Science of Superman) brings sensitivity, insight, and convincing research to this attempt at encompassing the last 13 years of J. Robert Oppenheimer's life. While biographies of Oppenheimer are abundant, the period from the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission's investigation into the physicist's Communist leanings to his death in 1967 has rarely been examined in any depth. Wolverton's equitable treatment of the scientists, …