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Martin J. Sherwin
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Born July 2, 1937 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died October 6, 2021
Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Pulitzer Prize — Biography · 2006
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography · 2005
- Guggenheim Fellowship · 1985
