Martin Sherwin

Martin J. Sherwin was an American historian. His scholarship mostly concerned the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation. Sherwin received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the long-time Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University until his retirement in May 2007. He was a professor emeritus of Tufts and a University Professor at George Mason University. He and co-author Kai Bird collaborated on a biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer, titled American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sherwin worked on the book for two decades before collaborating with Bird to finish the book. Sherwin and Bird shared the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for the work.

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