The collection of Martin Jay Sherwin (1937- ) relating to theoretical physicist and father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) spans 1910-2006, with the bulk of the collection concentrated from 1931 to 2006. The collection consists entirely of Sherwin's files relating to the writing and publishing, with Kai Bird, of their Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Oppenheimer, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The papers include interviews and oral histories, government records, articles and newspaper clippings, topical files, correspondence, photographs, and printed matter.